Avery v. City of Chicago

Frank L. Avery, a citizen and tax-payer, filed a bill and later a supplemental bill in the circuit court of Cook county against the city of Chicago, the Midwest Trading and Securities Corporation, and Arnold H. Kegel, Charles S. Peterson and George K. Schmidt, respectively the commissioner of health, the treasurer and the comptroller of the city. The relief sought was (i) an adjudication that a certain ordinance and a resultant contract between the city and the trading corporation for the removal and disposition of dead animals and of cut meats, fish and poultry condemned, by the health…