Mastrocola v. Acheson

S. H. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

This is an action pursuant to 8 U.S.C.A. § 903 for a declaratory judgment that the plaintiffs are citizens of the United States.

Two of three original plaintiffs, Antonietta Anna Mastrocola Di Nunzio and Lucia Mastrocola, remain. Both have entered the United States with a certificate of identity in order to litigate the question of their citizenship. One plaintiff, their brother Ugo Mastrocola, who, because he was a schoolteacher, was required by 'Italian law to, and did, swear allegiance to Italy, voluntarily discontinued his action.

The government alleges that…