People ex rel. Younger v. City of Chicago

The People, on the relation of James P. Younger, filed a petition for mandamus in the circuit court of Cook county to require the city of Chicago, the mayor and the commissioner of buildings to approve certain plans for the con-, struction of a milk-distributing plant to be erected on certain premises in the city of Chicago and to issue and deliver to the relator a permit for the construction of the same. The writ was issued according to the prayer of the petition, and the trial judge having certified that the" validity of an ordinance of the city was involved, an appeal was allowed and…