State v. American Book Co.

In this pase the plaintiff seeks to oust the defendant from the prosecution of the business of selling and contracting for the sale of school-books, and to annul a contract recently made by it with the state text-book commission for supplying certain school-books. The grounds of the application are *848that the defendant, as a foreign corporation, has not complied with chapter 10, Laws of 1898, and the amendatory statute of 1901 (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 1259 et seq.), entitling it to do business in the state.

The company has complied, although irregularly, informally, and out of time, with the law,…