American Book Company v. Marrs

Relator, American Book Company, filed its petition in this Court for writ of mandamus against respondent, S. M. N. Marrs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in which it alleges that it has two certain valid contracts with the State of Texas, entered into between it and the Texas State Text Book Commission, by the terms of which it had contracted and obligated itself to furnish and sell to the State of Texas, for a stated period of time, certain text books, and that the State of Texas had obligated itself to use said text books in its public schools. It further alleged that it is the…