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STATE EX REL. LYTELL v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH THROUGH REIN

No. 1021.

153 So.2d 498 (1963)

STATE ex rel. James LYTELL v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, through its President, Dr. W. J. REIN.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Monk Zelden, Max Zelden, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Ingard O. Johannesen, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee

Before McBRIDE, REGAN, YARRUT, SAMUEL and HALL, JJ.

YARRUT, Judge.

This mandamus suit was brought by James Lytell, and three of his five living children (Sadie Lytell Cox, Margaret Lytell Brooks and Paul L. Lytell), to compel Defendant to issue delayed birth certificates declaring them to be "white" persons; and in behalf of a deceased daughter, Eunice, to correct her death certificate, issued in 1918, designating her as "colored." The trial court rendered judgment for Defendant, denying relief to all Relators.

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