Case Name: STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1951-02-12
Citations: 218 La. 752
Docket Number: No. 39233
Parties: STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Judges: HAWTHORNE, J., takes no part.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 218
Pages: 752–754

Head Matter:
51 So.2d 41
STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
No. 39233.
Feb. 12, 1951.
George Sladovich, Jr., Charles L. Stiffell, INew Orleans, for respondent-appellant.
George Piazza, New Orleans, for relator.

Opinion:
MOISE, Justice.
Relator instituted proceedings against -the Louisiana State Board of Health to -compel correction of its death records to •show that relator's deceased mother, Anna 'Treadaway, born Lafitte, was a member of the white or Caucasian race. The specific .record involved is identified as "Ward District No. 52-5507, File No. 55, Registry No. 13,543." From a judgment in favour • of relator, the defendant has appealed.
It is unnecessary to review the facts upon which the judgment a quo was predicated, since this Court does not have juris•diction of an appeal in a mandamus proceeding to change a designation in vital •statistic records from "colored", to "white", -where the question of legitimacy is not at .issue. Constitution of 1921, Art. 7, Section 10; State ex rel. Thurber v. Board of Health of City of New Orleans, 153 La. 986, 96 So. 833; State ex rel. Allnet v. Board of Health of City of New Orleans, 155 La. 758, 99 So. 589.
For the reasons assigned, it is ordered that this case be transferred to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans, pursuant to-LSA-RS 13:4441, 4442, provided that the record shall be filed in that Court within thirty days from the date on which this decree shall become final, otherwise the appeal shall be dismissed.
HAWTHORNE, J., takes no part.