State ex rel. Encalade v. City of New Orleans

HALL, Judge.

Norbert Encalade filed two mandamus proceedings in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, viz.:

1) One on behalf of his minor daughter, Vanessa Irene Encalade, filed August 19, 1960, against the New Orleans Health Department, Bureau of Vital Statistics.

2) The other on behalf of himself individually, filed September 6, 1960 against the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

In the first suit he prayed that the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Health Department of the City of New Orleans be ordered to deliver to his daughter, Vanessa Irene Encalade, a birth certificate…