BERSHAD v. WOOD

No. 16933.

290 F.2d 714 (1961)

Sophie BERSHAD, Appellant, v. Wilson B. WOOD and Samuel L. Berger, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McRae, Elliott & Thompson and Howard F. Thompson, Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.

Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, A. F. Prescott and Sharon L. King, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jack D. H. Hays, U. S. Atty., and Ralph G. Smith, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for appellee.

Before POPE and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, District Judge.


HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.

Sophie Bershad, appellant herein, filed an action in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona against Wilson B. Wood and Samuel L. Berger, appellees herein, seeking general and punitive damages. The appellees petitioned for removal to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on the ground that they were officers of the United States and the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Department, and the petition was granted. In...

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