Sheldon v. Hoyne

Appellants, Edwin B. Sheldon and Frances Sheldon Whitehouse, as executors and trustees under the last will and testament of Edward H. Sheldon, deceased, filed their bill of complaint in the circuit court of Cook county, on behalf of themselves and other property owners similarly situated, to enjoin the State’s attorney of that county from prosecuting them under the statute known as the Gas Safety Appliance act, passed by the Illinois legislature in 1911. The court sustained appellee’s demurrer to the bill, and-appellants having elected to stand by their bill it was dismissed for want of…