Village of Western Springs v. Bernhagen.

This appeal is from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county granting the prayer of a bill for injunction filed by appellee, the village of Western Springs, against appellant, Julius Bernhagen, restraining him from operating a station for the sale of gasoline and lubricating oils at the southwest corner of Ogden avenue and Central avenue, in Western Springs.

Western Springs is a suburban residential community, with a population of about 1800, located fifteen miles west of Chicago, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. It has no manufacturing institutions and its business district…