City of Chicago v. National Management, Inc.

The City of Chicago filed separate ordinance enforcement suits against National Management, Inc. and Harvey Amsterdam as the owners of certain cubicle hotels, seeking fines for the violation of an ordinance requiring the installation of automatic sprinkler systems in such described hotels. By order of court the cases were consolidated and so proceeded to judgment. The case was tried without a jury. The trial court found that the ordinance was inapplicable to the defendants’ hotels and discharged the defendants. From that judgment this appeal is taken.

The two buildings involved are the Legion…