State Ex Rel. Schoeffner v. Dowling

The plaintiff, a resident and taxpayer of this city, sought from the civil district court a mandamus to compel the defendant^ as state health officer, to appoint a parish board of health for the parish of Orleans.

The petition alleges that, as no health board for said parish had been appointed by the authorities designated and empowered primarily to make such appointment, within the time provided by Act 79 of the Special Session of the Legislature of 1921, it became the ministerial and mandatory duty of the defendant under said statute to make the said appointment.

It is alleged that,…