McMillan 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: New Physical Geography, by Tarr; Elements of Agriculture, by Warren; The New Civics, by Ashley; and supplementary readers: Everyday Classics; Primer; First Reader; Second Reader; Third Reader; each by Baker and Thorndike.

The facts of this case in all essential particulars are the same as those contained and stated in the case of Laidlaw…