Case Name: D. C. Heath & Company v. S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-06-10
Citations: 114 Tex. 574
Docket Number: No. 4385
Parties: D. C. Heath & Company v. S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 574–574

Head Matter:
D. C. Heath & Company v. S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
No. 4385.
Decided June 10, 1925.
(273 S. W., 794).
Batts £& Brooks, for relator.
Dan Moody, Attorney-General, and Wright Morrow, G. A. Wheeler, and L. C. Sutton, Assistants (W. G. Love, of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
MR. JUSTICE PIERSON,
delivered .the opinion of the court. 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 textbooks, to-wit: "Webster's Early European History" and "Webster's Modern European History." The facts and the issues in this case are, in all material respects, the same as in the case of Laidlaw Brothers, Incorporated, v. S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent, opinion delivered June 8, 1925, (114 Texas, 561) 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.