METROPOLIS THEATRE CO. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 181.

228 U.S. 61 (1913)

METROPOLIS THEATRE COMPANY v. CITY OF CHICAGO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 7, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred S. Austrian, with whom Mr. Levy Mayer was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Charles M. Haft, with whom Mr. William H. Sexton was on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court, after making the above statement.

The attack of complainants (we so call plaintiffs in error) is upon the classification of the ordinance. It is contended that the purpose of the ordinance is to raise revenue and that its classification has no relation to such purpose and therefore is arbitrarily discriminatory, and thereby offends the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...

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