HUMPHREY CHEVROLET, INC. v. EVANSTON

No. 33714.

7 Ill.2d 402 (1955)

131 N.E.2d 70

HUMPHREY CHEVROLET, INC., et al., Appellants, v. THE CITY OF EVANSTON et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

SAMUEL MORGAN and L. SHELDON BROWN, both of Chicago, for appellants.

REX BULLINGER, Corporation Counsel, of Evanston, and MITCHELL and CONWAY, of Chicago, (THOMAS J. RUSSELL, and JOHN M. LEAHY, of counsel,) for appellees.

ELMER GERTZ, and JOSEPH MINSKY, (MAX A. KOPSTEIN, and PAUL H. VISHNY, of counsel,) all of Chicago, for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae on rehearing.


Decree affirmed.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs-appellants, who are automobile dealers in the city of Evanston, sought by this suit in the superior court of Cook County to enjoin the city and certain municipal officials from enforcing against them a Sunday closing ordinance and asked the court to declare said ordinance unconstitutional as applied to them. The court, however...

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