Case Name: STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1951-02-12
Citations: 51 So. 2d 41
Docket Number: No. 39233
Parties: STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Judges: HAWTHORNE, J., takes no part.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 51
Pages: 41–41

Head Matter:
218 La. 752
STATE ex rel. TREADAWAY v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
No. 39233.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Feb. 12, 1951.
George Sladovich, Jr., Charles L. Stiff ell, New 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 jurisdiction 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.