Franco-American Hygienic Co. v. City of Chicago

The Franeo-American Hygienic Company, the American Perfumeries, and the White Cross Laboratories, all corporations, and Euclid Snow, doing business as the Mailinckrodt Chemical Works, filed their amended bill of complaint in the circuit court of Cook county against the city of Chicago and William F. Dever, Morgan A. Collins and J. H. Wilson, respectively the mayor, the chief of police and the chief of the license department of the city. The complainants alleged in their bill that they, with many other firms, individuals and corporations, were engaged in the manufacture and sale, in the city…