Pieri v. Sevier

The appellee, Sevier, was complainant in the court below, and filed a bill in the chancery court of Humphreys county, where Sevier and Pieri both lived, against Pieri and the School Book Supply Company, a corporation of Jackson, Hinds county, Mississippi, for the purpose of canceling a contract between the School Book Supply Company and Pieri, and to force the School Book Supply Company to make a contract with the complainant.

The School Book Supply Company had a contract to supply school books to the schools of the state, and was required to have at least two agencies, or agents, in each…