State ex rel. Francis v. Louisiana State Board of Health

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.

The record reveals that in 1958 the defendant issued a birth certificate to the plaintiff without objection, which indicated that plaintiff’s race was either white or 'Indian.…