Am. Book Co. v. Marrs, Supt.

This suit was brought by relator, in which it seeks a mandamus against respondent to require him to do and perform his ministerial and statutory duties necessary to the performance of its contract with the State for the purchase of certain textbooks, to wit: Hunter & Whitman’s “Civic Science in Home and Community,” and Pearson & Suzzalo’s “Essentials of Spelling,” Parts I and II, by the State, and the furnishing of them by it to the State, under the terms of its said contract and the provisions of the statutes.

The law relating to the character and nature of respondent’s responsibilities and •…