Helen Brancadora v. Federal National Mortgage Association, Paul Akin, J. S. Baughman and Arthur Welch

Helen Brancadora, plaintiff in the District Court and appellant here, appeals from order of dismissal of appellant’s action.

The action was originally filed in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In such complaint she sought damages, general and exemplary, against the ap-pellees for wrongfully causing dismissal from her employment in a Federal Civil Service capacity as an “Examiner GS-4, Controller’s Division, Los Angeles Agency” of the appellee Federal National Mortgage Association. In the complaint it is alleged that the corporate appellee is a corporation organized by an Act of Congress and exists pursuant to Federal law. It is further alleged that the individual appellees are agents and employees of the appellee corporation and that they employed fraudulent means and used the powers given them by the corporate appellee in such manner as to cause the corporate appellee to dismiss her.

It appears in the record that the United States is the owner of more than one-half of the capital stock of the corporate appellee.

Upon petition by the appellees the cause was removed from the state court to the United States District Court. No…