Long v. Board of Trustees of Ohio State University

This is an injunction case, brought by a taxpayer and citizen of the state. It involves the power of the Ohio State University to establish and maintain the University Press Book Store, and to assume indebtedness and contract debts in connection therewith.

For some years the Ohio State University Cooperative Supply Company, a private corporation, maintained a store upon the campus of the University to sell books and supplies to students and professors. In July of the present year, 1926, the board of trustees of the University determined to establish a state store to handle books and student…