State ex rel. Logan v. Allen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

In these two cases the state sought to enjoin the members of the state school book commission, the state auditor and *377the state printer from carrying into effect certain contracts with the owners of copyrighted materials for use in the publication of certain school textbooks.

In the first of these cases, No. 30,209, the petition alleged that in January of this year the state school book commission made a contract with the John C. Winston Company, a Philadelphia publishing house which owned' certain copyrighted materials used in the publication…