Bull v. City of Quincy (9 Ill. App. 127, 1881)

McCulloch, J.

This was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace by appellee against appellants as co-partners, to recover a penalty provided by the city ordinances for a failure to take out a license, as provided by section 13 of article 1, of chapter entitled Licenses, passed on the 20th day of September, 1875.

The suit having been carried by appeal into the circuit court, a trial was there had before the court without a jury, and judgment rendered against appellants for the sum of ten dollars, to reverse which judgment an appeal was taken to this court.

The City of Quincy is empowered by its charter “ to license, tax and regulate auctioneers, merchants and retailers, groceries ■ or drinking saloons, beer-houses, taverns, ordinaries, hawkers,, peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers, an