Case Name: W. H. WHEELER & CO. v. S. M. N. MARRS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-06-10
Citations: 273 S.W. 793
Docket Number: No. 4382
Parties: W. H. WHEELER & CO. v. S. M. N. MARRS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 273
Pages: 793–793

Head Matter:
W. H. WHEELER & CO. v. S. M. N. MARRS, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(No. 4382.)
(Supreme Court of Texas.
June 10, 1925.)
W. A. Keeling, 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.

Opinion:
PIERSON, J.
Relator seéks 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, Wheeler's Literary Readers, books 4, 5, 6, and 7.
The facts and the issues in this case are, in all material respects, the same as in the case 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. Eon the reasons stated in that case, the wiit of mandamus is awarded herein.