Laidlaw Bros. v. Marrs

Relator seeks a mandamus against respondent to require him to do and perform the ministerial or statutory duties which it has a legal right to have performed in regard to its contract with the State for the purchase of certain textbooks, to-wit: “Our Government,” Davis and McClure, Regular Edition, 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.

Without reciting each detailed step in the process of entering into and executing the contract by the Texas State Textbook Commission, and the action taken thereon by…