Westfalls Storage, Van & Express Co. v. City of Chicago

This was a bill for injunction filed by plaintiffs in error in the superior court of Cook county, alleging that they were engaged in operating motor trucks over and upon the public streets of the city of Chicago for hire, and that said city had enacted and was enforcing an ordinance under the provisions of which horse-drawn vehicles used as public carts are required to pay a much less license fee for using said streets than are motor trucks; that said ordinance imposes upon the owners and operators of motor carts or trucks much greater license fees than upon the owners and operators of…