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DECLET v. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

Civ. No. 8915.

129 F.Supp. 566 (1955)

Elena Santiago Vda. DECLET, Petitioner, v. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, Respondent.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico, San Juan Division.

March 31, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose T. Marrero Rivera and Ciro Malatrasi, Jr., San Juan, Puerto Rico, for plaintiff.

Ruben Rodriguez Antongiorgi, U. S. Atty., San Juan, Puerto Rico, for defendant.

RUIZ-NAZARIO, District Judge.

Defendant's motion to dismiss must be granted.

In the first place, the only named defendant "Veterans' Administration" is not a suable entity, because Congress has not constituted this agency a body corporate or authorized it be sued as such. Mitchell v. United States, D.C., 111 F.Supp. 104, 105. See also Blackmar v. Guerre, 342 U.S. 512, 515-516, 72 S.Ct. 410...

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