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STATE EX REL. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

No. 40715.

61 So.2d 735 (1952)

221 La. 1048

STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 10, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Piazza, New Orleans, for relator.

Edmond G. Miranne, George Sladovich, Jr., and Charles L. Stiffell, New Orleans, for respondent-appellant.

MOISE, Justice.

Mandamus proceedings were instituted by Grant T. Treadaway to compel the Louisiana State Board of Health to change its records as to relator's mother, Anna Treadaway, from "colored" to "white". The State Board of Health filed an answer in which it stood on all of the grounds covered by its certificate and pleaded that the registration was correct. The district court, after overruling exceptions filed by the defendant Board, held a trial on the merits...

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