Drovers Trust & Savings Bank v. City of Chicago

Plaintiff, Drovers Trust & Savings Bank, Trustee, filed suit for a declaratory judgment that frontage-consent ordinances of the city of Chicago were invalid as applied to its property. The superior court of Cook County denied the relief prayed and certified that the validity of a municipal ordinance is involved and that the public interest requires a direct appeal to this court.

The property in question is a vacant tract located at the southwest corner of 55th- Street and South Kenneth Avenue in Chicago upon which plaintiff desires to erect a gasoline filling station, including a wash and…