State Ex Rel. Casey v. State Board of Education

Woods, Judge:

John Casey seeks to invoke mandamus to require the State Board of Education to adopt for uniform and exclusive use in the elementary schools of this State, for a period of five years, a series of books on the subject of spelling, consisting of two volumes, entitled “Mastery of Words,” and to enter into a contract with the Iroquois Publishing Company, the publisher, in accordance with its offer. The proceeding is based on an alleged forty per cent, change of the subjects required by law to be taught in said elementary schools, in violation of §11, Chapter 45, Code, providing that…