Case ID: sw_273/html/0793-01.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

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS v. S. M. N. MARRS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
    (No. 4381.)
    (Supreme Court of Texas.
    June 10, 1925.)
    Batts & Brooks, 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 Texas for the purchase of certain text-books, to wit, five-book edition series of English grammars, called “English To-Day,” by Meek and Wilson. (

This case, in point of fact and law, is identical with that of Laidlaw Bros., Inc., v. S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 273 S. W. 789, delivered June 8, 1925, and all issues here involved were thoroughly considered in connection with that case. It would serve no useful purpose to restate the facts or the law in this case.

Upon the authority of that case, it is ordered that the writ of mandamus issue as prayed for.