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STOKES v. COUNTY CLERK

Docket No. 19744.

122 Cal.App.2d 229 (1953)

264 P.2d 959

RUTH STOKES et al., Appellants, v. COUNTY CLERK OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

December 22, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Petherbridge and Daniel G. Marshall for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Henry A. Dietz, Assistant Attorney General, Howard S. Goldin, Deputy Attorney General, Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and Earl O. Lippold and John B. Anson, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondents.

DRAPEAU, J.

By the instant proceeding in mandamus, petitioners sought from the superior court an order compelling the county clerk of Los Angeles County to issue to them a license to marry and a certificate of registry of marriage, pursuant to section 69 and 69a of the Civil Code, respectively.

When petitioners applied for the license to marry, they declined to state their color or race in the spaces provided...

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