Commonwealth v. Ginn & Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 13 — Action by Commonwealth of Kentucky Against Ginn & Co., &c., on a Bond — APPEAL PRONE GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment fob Defendants and Plaintiff Appeals. The Legislature had in mind th'e best interests of the common schools when it enacted the statutes under which this suit •was instituted, — to protect the children of the public schools of Kentucky, many of them very poor, from the greed of powerful publishing houses and book trusts.
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Case 13 — Action by Commonwealth of Kentucky Against Ginn & Co., &c., on a Bond — APPEAL PRONE GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment fob Defendants and Plaintiff Appeals. The Legislature had in mind th'e best interests of the common schools when it enacted the statutes under which this suit •was instituted, — to protect the children of the public schools of Kentucky, many of them very poor, from the greed of powerful publishing houses and book trusts. The bond sued on was executed to the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Ginn & Co., publishers of school text books, and we maintain that Elisa Jane Lusk,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE O’REAR
Reversing.
This suit was brought in the Garrard circuit court in the name of the 'Commonwealth of Kentucky and Elisa Jennings Lusk, as county superintendent of common schools of Ga-rrard county, Ky., plaintiffs, against Ginn & Go., publishers of school test-books, whose principal *114place of business is at Boston, Mass., and H. C. Reid, EL N. Beauchamp, and Geo. Price, defendants. Appellant, Elisa Jennings Lusk, is the superintendent of public schools of Garrard county, and as such appointed a county board of exaininers, as required by the statute, all of whom…
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