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

No. 1937.

179 So.2d 681 (1965)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Anthony Leon FRANCIS v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 2, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford P. De Laup, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

James P. Screen, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before McBRIDE, REGAN, and BARNETTE, JJ.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Anthony Leon Francis, filed this suit against the defendant, the Louisiana State Board of Health,1 endeavoring to obtain a writ of mandamus ordering the defendant to issue a birth certificate revealing his race as Indian.

The defendant answered, and therein merely denied the allegations of the plaintiff's petition.

From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant has prosecuted this appeal...

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