Texas Supreme Court June 8, 1925, No. 4383. (Laidlaw Bros. v. Marrs)

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MR. JUSTICE PIERSON

delivered the opinion of the court.

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