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This is an application for a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent court and the judge thereof from enforcing obedience to a decree and writ of injunction issued pursuant thereto.

From the petition and papers it appears that on July 18, 1899, one J. C. Green, as plaintiff, commenced an action in said superior court against the said board of education and the members thereof, to obtain an injunction.commanding and requiring said board of education and the members thereof to cause to be used in the public schools of the city and county of San Francisco the text-books of the "California system of vertical penmanship,” and to refrain from using and causing to be used text-books of the "Shaylor system of vertical round-hand penmanship”; that on the 18th of July, 1899, an order was issued by said court directed to the defendants in said action to show cause why an injunction should not issue restraining them from using or causing to be used in the public schools of said city and county the text-books of the Shaylor system of vertical round-hand penmanship. Hpon the return to the said order to show cause the court, after hearing the evidence adduced, on July 31, 1899, denied the…