Beaver Glass & Mirror Co. v. Board of Education of Rockford School District No. 205

The petitioners, Beaver Glass and Mirror Co., Inc., and Walter Williams, president of Beaver Glass (and a taxpayer within the school district), filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Board of Education of Rockford School District No. 205 (hereafter the “Board”), to assign the glass replacement contract for the school year 1975-76 to Beaver Glass; petitioners also sought $2,500 for damages to the date of the petition, although this prayer was subsequently amended to ask for more general relief. The petition was filed on August 7,1975, and on October 2, 1975, petitioners filed a…