State ex rel. Dawson v. Innes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

This action was brought by the state on the relation of John S. Dawson, attorney-general, to enjoin the board of education and superintendent of schools of the city of Lawrence from adopting, using or permitting to be used certain unadopted textbooks. The petition alleged that the textbook commission had *169adopted certain readers for the first, second, third, fourth and fifth grades, the maximum prices fixed being ten, seventeen, twenty-three, thirty and forty cents, respectively; that the defendants had adopted certain textbooks, and were using…