People ex rel. Hinch v. Harrison

This was a petition filed in this court in the name of the People of the State, upon the relation of John T. Hinch, for a mandamus against Carter H. Harrison, mayor of the city of Chicago, to compel him to issue to relator a license to keep a dram-shop at Ho. 773 East Fifty-first street, in the said city. The petition sets out in full chapter 15 of the municipal code of Hyde Park, passed March 28, 1887, which embraces in twenty-one sections the general subject of dram-shop licenses. Sections 5, 6 and 10 are as follows:

“Sec. 5. No person without a license to keep or maintain a liquor or beer…