Kinsley v. City of Chicago

Citations

• 124 Ill. 359
• 16 N.E. 260

Syllabus

<p>X. Municipal corporations—license for the sale of meats, etc.—power to require license to he taken out. Under the grant of power “to regulate the sale of meats, poultry, fish, cheese, lard, vegetables, and all other provisions, and to provide for a place and manner of selling the same,” a municipal corporation may require that a license shall be obtained for the selling of such articles.</p> <p>2. An incorporated city having the power “to make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease,” has the right to require all sellers of meats to take out a license. Regulations in respect to the selling of meats have relation to health and disease.</p> <p>3. Same—license fee—whether it may he exacted—and as to the amount. Under a power to regulate a calling or business, merely, with no express powers of taxation, a license fee may be exacted, and the fact that such fee may exceed the necessary or probable expense of issuing the license and inspecting the business it covers, will not render the fee exacted illegal or unreasonable.</p>