University Sued For $3,000,000 By Tax Advisor

A $3,000,000 damage suit, naming Harvard University and Dean Griswold of the Law School, as co-defendants, was filed in Federal Court Friday by Dr. J. Irizzary Y. Puente, a tax expert from Washington, D.C. The hearing will be held Thursday.

Puente claims that the defendants unlawfully disclosed his plans for a foreign tax service and that, because of this disclosure, he has suffered financial losses on his won tax volumes, already published.

Neither Griswold nor Puente would comment on the suit, but Puente's attorney, Timothy J. McInerney, charged that the Law School, in conjunction with the United Nations and several business corporations, has published reports embracing Puente's ideas.

McInerney stated that, in May of 1950, Puente asked Griswold to be the American advisor for a series of tax articles which he was planning. Puente at that time told Griswold the details of the program, which were later published in the Law School Bulletin of February 1955 credited to William Sprague Barnes, director of World Tax Service at the Law School.

Puente previously had tried to sue the University of $1,000,000 in May 1955, at Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia court ruled that it had no jurisdiction and that the plaintiff would have to file his claim in Massachusetts. Puente had asserted that since the University-owned Dumbarton Oaks was situated in the District of Columbia he could lawfully sue in Washington, D.C.