PRENTICE v. PARKER

No. 9867.

376 So.2d 568 (1979)

Lilly Marie Yarno PRENTICE v. Wayne P. PARKER, Registrar of Vital Statistics of the City of New Orleans.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kennedy & Yeager, Charles J. Yeager and George M. Foote, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellee.

H. M. Westholz, Jr., Dept. of Health and Human Resources, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before SAMUEL, GULOTTA and GARRISON, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

Plaintiff, who was adopted in 1944 at a very young age, filed this mandamus proceeding against the Registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the City of New Orleans to compel production of her original birth certificate. The petition sets forth plaintiff's desire to determine her inheritance rights from her natural parents, for medical purposes, and to establish her identity.

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