Vitagraph Co. of America v. City of Chicago

Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is from an interlocutory order restraining the City of Chicago, Herman F. Schuettler, its General Superintendent of Police, their attorneys, agents, etc., from in any way interfering with the exhibition in said city of appellee’s photoplay “Within the Law,” until the final adjudication of an appeal from a judgment in a mandamus proceeding awarding the writ to compel the issuance of a permit for such exhibition.

The right to such relief is based upon the claim of irreparable injury. The substance of the claim is that…