Bancroft v. Thayer
United States Circuit Court
- [In equity. Suit for an injunction by A. L. Bancroft and Hubert H. Bancroft against W. W. Thayer, governor, R. P. Erhart, secretary, and L. J. Powell, superintendent,—constituting the Oregon state board of education, —to restrain respondents from adopting a new series of text-books in the common schools of the state.
1Opinion of the Court
DEADY, District Judge.
This suit is brought to enjoin the defendants, constituting the state board of education, from taking steps to adopt a new series of text-books for the common schools of this state, under section 12 of the act of October 29, 1872, as amended by section 4 of the act of October 4, 1878, (Sess. Laws, p. 61,) in place of the one now in use, published by the complainants.
The bill states that the complainants are citizens of California, and the defendants, of Oregon; that in pursuance of the act of October 29, 1872, aforesaid, entitled “An act to establish a uniform course of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Whiteside v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
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