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NORTH AMERICAN STORAGE CO. v. CHICAGO

No. 28.

211 U.S. 306 (1908)

NORTH AMERICAN COLD STORAGE COMPANY, APPELLANT, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1908.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. L.A. Stebbins, with whom Mr. W.H. Sears was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Emil C. Wetten, with whom Mr. George W. Miller and Mr. Edward J. Brundage were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

In this case the ordinance in question is to be regarded as in effect a statute of the State, adopted under a power granted it by the state legislature, and hence it is an act of the State within the Fourteenth Amendment. New Orleans v. Sugar Co., 125 U.S. 18, 31.

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