Volume 50 · 1060
Private Law 75–674
Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the estates of Marshall Campbell and Raymond O’Neal.
Approved August 16, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the estates of Marshall Campbell and Raymond O’Neal.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment, as if the United States were suable in tort, upon the claims of the estate of Marshall Campbell, and the estate of Raymond O’Neal, of Greene County, Georgia, for damages resulting from the deaths of said Marshall Campbell and Raymond O’Neal by reason of an automobile collision involving a Civilian Conservation Corps truck on August 30, 1935, on the highway between Greensboro and Union
Proviso.
Judgment.
Point, Georgia: Provided, That the judgment, if any, shall not exceed, in the case of the estate of Marshall Campbell, $5,000; and in the case of the estate of Raymond O’Neal, $5,000.
Sec. 2.
Suit upon such claims may be instituted at any time within one year after the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the lapse
Proceedings, etc.
of time or any statute of limitations. Proceedings for the determination of such claims, appeals therefrom, and payment of any judgment thereon, shall be in the same manner as in the cases over which such court has jurisdiction under the provisions of paragraph twentieth
of section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended.
Approved, August 16, 1937.