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Private Law 75–215

For the relief of Henry H. Carr; Robert E. Wise, Stanley Wise Ellis, and Peyton L. Ellis; and Hilory Wise and Flora A. Wise.

Approved May 15, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of Henry H. Carr; Robert E. Wise, Stanley Wise Ellis, and Peyton L. Ellis; and Hilory Wise and Flora A. Wise.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That Henry H.

Henry H. Carr and others.

Suit for damages authorized.

Carr, owner of a certain farm consisting of three hundred and four acres of land, more or less, near Camp Knox in Hardin County, Kentucky; and Robert E. Wise, Stanley Wise Ellis, and Peyton L. Ellis, owners of a certain farm consisting of two hundred acres of land, more or less, near Camp Knox in Hardin County, Kentucky; and Hilory Wise and Flora A. Wise, owners of a certain farm consisting of two hundred and forty acres of land, more or less (in two separate fees of one hundred and twenty acres each, more or less) near Camp Knox in Hardin County, Kentucky, are, as such owner or owners, hereby authorized to bring such suit or suits as they may respectively desire to so do against the United States of America, to recover damages, if any, for loss or losses, which they may have sustained or suffered, as such respective owners, by reason of establishment, construction, or maintenance of Camp Knox in

Jurisdiction conferred upon district court.

the State of Kentucky. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky to hear, consider, determine, and render judgments for the respective amounts of such damages, if any, as may be found to have been sustained or suffered by the said owners of said farms, with the same right of appeal as in other cases, and notwithstanding

Proviso.

Time limitation.

any lapse of time or statute of limitation: Provided, That such action will be brought within one year from the date that this Act shall become effective.

Approved, May 15, 1937.

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