Row, Peterson Co. v. Marrs

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: Fourth Reader, Fifth Reader, and Sixth Reader, each by Free and Treadwell, and Seventh Reader, by Briggs.

The facts of this case case in all essential particulars are the same as those contained and stated in the case of Laidlaw Brothers, Inc., v. S.M.N. Marrs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, opinion delivered June 8, 1925, with…