Legal Opinion
MacMillan Co. v. Johnson
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided August 27, 1920No. 313PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity. Suit'by the Macmillan Company against T. E. Johnson, as Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan. Decree for complainant in part.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, District Judge.
[1] This case involves the constitutionality of the so-called “School Text-Book Act” of the State of Michigan, being Act No. 380 of the Michigan Public Acts of 1919, the title of which, so far as it is material here, is:
“An act to regulate the sale, exchange, and nse of school text-books within this slate.”
The sections of this act material to the present controversy are as follows:
“Section 1. No board of education or school official in any school district, in this state shall purchase, procure by exchange, adopt, or permit to be used in the schools of any such district…
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- Waugh v. Board of Trustees of Univ. of Miss.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Polzin v. Rand, McNally & Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1911
- Mathias v. CramerMichigan Supreme Court · 1888
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