State ex rel. Woare v. Board of Commissioners

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

In tbis action plaintiff sought a writ of mandate to compel defendants, as tbe board of county commissioners of Liberty county, to award to him a contract to do tbe county printing and furnish tbe supplies for said county specified in section 4482, Revised Codes of 1921. Tbe facts in the case, so far as essential to a determination of the matters presented on tbis appeal, are as follows:

Tbe plaintiff is tbe owner and manager of tbe “Chester Reporter,” a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in Liberty county, and tbe only one which bad been…