Questão jurídica principal
Whether the defendant, a branch of a cooperative, had procedural capacity and was correctly designated as a party.
Decisão extraída
The branch designation was an inexact designation of the cooperative; the designation could be corrected because no one was misled and service to the cooperative was possible.
Fundamentação extraída
A branch lacks legal personality, but where the intended party is clear and the act can reach the real entity, the misdesignation is curable.