CHARLES v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 32185.

413 Ill. 428 (1952)

109 N.E.2d 790

LeROY G. CHARLES et al., Appellants, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 19, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LEROY G. CHARLES, of Chicago, for appellants.

JOHN J. MORTIMER, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago, (L. LOUIS KARTON, and HARRY H. POLLACK, of counsel,) for appellee.

LITSINGER, GATENBEY & SPULLER, of Chicago, (ANDREW W. GATENBEY, and JOHN D. CLANCEY, JR., of counsel,) for amicus curiae.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

Mr. JUSTICE BRISTOW delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, operators of a retail live-poultry business in Chicago, instituted proceedings to enjoin defendant from enforcing a municipal ordinance regulating the handling and slaughtering of live poultry in retail food establishments, on the ground that the ordinance is unconstitutional. The circuit court of Cook County held unconstitutional only certain provisions...

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