EVANS v. UNITED STATES VETERANS ADMINI. HOSPITAL

No. 296, Docket 31615.

391 F.2d 261 (1968)

Eleanore J. EVANS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 6, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanore J. Evans, pro se.

Joel A. Forkosch, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Alan G. Blumberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before MEDINA, MOORE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Eleanore J. Evans appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Herlands, J., which dismissed her complaint against a United States Veterans Administration Hospital. The Court below correctly determined that the Hospital was immune from suit since it is well established that a Veterans Administration Hospital, as an instrumentality of the Veterans Administration, cannot be sued in its own name. Fermin...

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