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Private Law 74–559
Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of John W. Hubbard.
Approved June 15, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of John W. Hubbard.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That jurisdiction is conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of John W. Hubbard, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, against the United States for damages for injury to the steamboat Senator Cordill and its cargo on February 5, 1934, when such steamboat struck a submerged wicket of United States Dam Numbered 14, on the Ohio River and sank.
Commencement of suit.Sec. 2.
Such claim may be instituted at any time within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the lapse of
Proceedings, etc.
time or any statute of limitation. Proceedings for the determination of such claim, and appeals from, and payment of, any judgment thereon, shall be in the same manner as in the case of claims over
U. S. C., p. 1261.
which such court has jurisdiction under section 145 of the Judicial Code, as amended.
Approved, June 15, 1936.