People Ex Rel. Terp v. Washingtonian Home

The People, on the relation of Nis Thompson Terp, a property owner and tax-payer in the city of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, filed a complaint in chancery in the superior court of Cook county, alleging that the Washingtonian Home of Chicago is a charitable institution incorporated for the purpose of maintaining and operating a hospital, and operates one known as the Martha Washington Home at 2318 Irving Park boulevard, in Chicago; that there is now in full force and effect in Chicago a certain ordinance, being section 2670 of the municipal code of Chicago as amended and revised to and…