Show C STATUS OF PORTORICO Suit Sut to Determine This Is Brought Against United States New York May 2 The answer an to the United Unie States State government in the suit olt for damages against Com Corn Commissioner missioner of Immigration by Jorg Cruze Craze a Porto Rican who was waG detained here as a contract laborer on his arrival recently from San Juan was today served on the plaintiffs counsel This TI suit sui is brought to determine the status Matus of Porto Rico The government answer anwer admits that Porto Rico was wa relinquished and its is ceded to the United States State by Spain and then the sets up the con contention tenton that it uha has no knowledge or information sufficient to form a beUel that the plaintiff was born in the Island of Porto Porte Rico and has always lived Ived therein and was a subject of Spain until the Uth day clay dy of April Apri 1899 and therefore denied the same sameI It I is lastly lasty denied tha that the plaintiff was wa in any ny way wy damaged da gd in the he sum eum um of and the tle United Unie States State circuit court curt Jo is asked aske to dismiss the suit on onit its it merits meris and with costs coats to t the plain plaintiffs pl in int tiffs t s 0 c |