Broussard v. State Industrial School for Colored Youths

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, Luelva E. Broussard, a classified employee, prosecutes this appeal from the action of the State Civil Service Commission affirming her dismissal as Institution Counselor at the State Industrial School for Colored Youths for the assigned reason 1 that she was not a fit person to be employed as a counselor to wayward youth. 2

According to the facts as found by the Civil Service Commission, the appellant married Herman Ray Graham in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on February 26, 1952, and a day or two later left him. Some four months later, on June 4, 1952, she…