Mt. Vernon Cooperative Bank v. John F. Gleason, Administrator of Veterans Affairs

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This action, removed to the district court, seeks a declaratory judgment that defendant Administrator may not recover, on the ground that the appropriate papers were forged by an interloper, a payment made to a bank under a Veterans Administration guaranty of a veteran’s home loan.

Henry Alfred Hopkins and a female companion, representing themselves to be a veteran named Harry Gilmore and his wife Charlie, applied to the appellant bank for an $11,000 home mortgage loan. They presented stolen discharge papers made out to Gilmore and a certificate of eligibility for…