State ex rel. McMullen v. Affholder

The appellee as relator filed a petition in the district-court of Burt county December 9, 1893, in an action then commenced by him against the appellants as officers of school district No. 58, Burt county, the object of which was to obtain the issuance of a writ of mandamus, ordering the appellants to comply with the provisions of an act of the legislature entitled “An act to provide cheaper text-books, and the district ownership of the same,” (Comp-Stats., 1893, pp. 771a, 7716,) and furnish to his children, and other pupils of the school in the district, text-books for their use. An…