Legal Opinion

Wilkie v. City of Chicago

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 20, 1900PublishedCited by 40 opinions

Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright

William Wilkie and seventy-eight others, as complainants, filed their bill in this case in the circuit court of Cook county against the city of Chicago, appellee, alleging that they were master plumbers engaged in the business of plumbing in the said city, and praying for an injunction against the enforcement of section 1415 of the Revised Code of said city, requiring each master plumber to obtain a license and pay a fee of $30 per year therefor, and section 1421 of such code, imposing a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $100 for each and every offense of performing any plumbing work…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. City of Chicago v. CollinsIllinois Supreme Court · 1898

3Cited by40 opinions

  1. Spiegler v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  2. Arms v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1924
  3. Blatz Brewing Co. v. CollinsCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1945
  4. Douglas v. People ex rel. RuddyIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
  5. Dibrell v. City of ColemanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1914

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