EASTERN GRAIN CO. v. CURRIER

No. 4278.

98 N.H. 495 (1954)

EASTERN GRAIN COMPANY v. JOSEPH CURRIER & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided March 2, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLane, Davis, Carleton & Graf, Stanley M. Brown and Wesley E. Whitney (Mr. Whitney orally), for the plaintiff.

Robert D. Branch, Assistant United States Attorney (by brief and orally), for the defendant trustee.

Grinnell & Grinnell for the principal defendants, furnished no brief.


BLANDIN, J.

It is established beyond question that the United States cannot be sued without its consent. Dalehite v. United States, 346 U.S. 15. It is equally clear that this immunity extends to agencies of the government when the relief sought is actually against the sovereign. Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Corp., 337 U.S. 682

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