Case ID: sw_273/html/0794-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PIERSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHNSON PUB. CO. v. S. M. N. MARRS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
    (No. 4386.)
    (Supreme Court of Texas.
    June 10, 1925.)
    Chas. L. Black, of Austin, for relator.
    Dan Moody, Atty. Gen., and Wright Morrow, C. A. Wheeler, and L. C. Sutton, Asst. Attys. Gen. (W. G. Love, of Houston, of counsel), for respondent.
   PIERSON, J.

Relator seeks a mandamus against respondent to require him to do and perform the ministerial or statutory duties which it has a legal right to have performed in regard to its contract with the state of Teias for the purchase of certain text-books, to wit, Child’s World Readers, by Withers, Browne, and Tate, as follows: “Child’s World Primer,” “Child’s World First Reader,” “Child’s World Second Reader,” “Child’s World Third Reader.”

The facts and the issues in this case are, in all material respects, the same as in the ease of Laidlaw Bros., Inc., v. S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent, 273 S. W. 789, opinion delivered June 8, 1925, and were given careful attention in the consideration of that case. For the reasons stated in that case, the writ of mandamus is awarded herein.