City of Chicago v. Drake Hotel Co.

The city of Chicago instituted suit in the municipal court of Chicago against the Drake Hotel Company, a corporation, to recover a penalty for the violation by the defendant of the following provision of an ordinance of the city: “No person, firm or corporation, either as owner, lessee, manager, officer or agent of a restaurant or public place of refreshment conducted in any other place than a licensed dance hall, shall conduct a dance of the patrons therein or suffer or permit the patrons of same to indulge in dancing while the said place or the room in which the said dancing is indulged in…