Italia America Shipping Corp. v. Nelson

Mr. JusTice Heard

delivered the opinion of the court:

The appellees, being firms, corporations, individuals and partnerships engaged in the business of buying and selling foreign exchange and the transmission or transfer of moneys to foreign countries, filed their amended bill of complaint in the circuit court of Cook county praying the court to declare unconstitutional and void an act entitled “An act in relation to the buying and selling of foreign exchange and the transmission or transfer of money to foreign countries,” approved June 28, 1923, (Laws of 1923, p. 277,) and that appellants, who…