Herb Bros. v. City of Alton

Herb Bros, and eighteen other meat dealers of the city of Alton filed their bill of complaint in the circuit court of Madison county to enjoin the city of Alton, and the city attorney and the police magistrate thereof, from enforcing or attempting to enforce a certain ordinance requiring dealers in certain kinds of fresh meats to pay the city of Alton a license fee of $100 per year, and providing a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $200 for each day that business should be conducted without a license. The bill alleges that on March 31, 1909, the city council purported to pass and…