Galob v. Sanborn

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• concluding that a village public utility commission was merely a department or agency of a village and could not be sued in its own name
• holding that the district court was powerless to declare a village public utility commission a legal entity with the power to sue and be sued in the absence of any authority granting the commission such authority
• reversing judgment entered against public utilities commission as invalid, because commission was not legal entity that could sue or be sued, but noting that action could be maintained against village
• reversing judgment entered against public utilities commission as invalid, because commission was not legal entity that could sue or be sued, but noting that action could be maintained against village

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