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GREEN v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 20696.

88 So.2d 76 (1956)

Robert GREEN v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (Department of Public Health).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

Rehearing Denied June 27, 1956.

Writ of Certiorari Denied September 28, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton G. Klein, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Henry B. Curtis and John F. Connolly, New Orleans, for City of New Orleans, defendant-appellee.

Frank J. Stich, Jr., New Orleans, curator ad hoc.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Robert Green, a colored adoptive applicant, instituted this suit against the defendant, City of New Orleans, Bureau of Vital Statistics, endeavoring to obtain a writ of mandamus compelling the defendant to change the race, as revealed in the birth certificate of Jacqueline Ann Henley, age about four and a half years, from white to colored or to show cause why such change should not be made; plaintiff then requested that a curator ad hoc be...

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