Volume 52 · 1398
Private Law 75–662
Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Anna Lee Hebert, Mrs. Nicholas Hebert, Mr. and Mrs. Dossie E. Worrell, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McClure, and W. F. Cobb.
Approved June 25, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Anna Lee Hebert, Mrs. Nicholas Hebert, Mr. and Mrs. Dossie E. Worrell, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McClure, and W. F. Cobb.
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 Eastern District of Louisiana, at New Orleans, to hear, determine, and render judgment, as if the United States were suable in tort, upon the claims of Anna Lee Hebert of New Orleans, Louisiana, for personal injuries, of Mrs. Nicholas Hebert, of New Orleans, Louisiana, for the deaths of her children, Vernon Hebert and Virges Hebert, both formerly of New Orleans, Louisiana; of Mr. and Mrs. Dossie E. Worrell, of Zachary, Louisiana, for the death of their son, Leon Worrell; of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McClure, of Zachary. Louisiana, for the death of their son, Earl Roy McClure; and of W. N. Cobb, of Zachary, Louisiana, for personal injuries and damage to his truck, said deaths, personal injuries, and damage having resulted from a collision between the automobile in which Anna Lee Hebert, Vernon Hebert, and Virges Hebert were riding, and a truck operated by the Corps of Engineers, War Department, and a collision between said latter truck and the truck owned by W. F. Cobb, in which he, Leon Worrell, and Earl Roy McClure were riding, on April 28, 1936, on United States Highway Numbered 61, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, near
Proviso.
Limitation on judgments.
Lutcher, Louisiana: Provided, That the judgments, if any, for injuries of Anna Lee Hebert shall not exceed $4,000; for deaths of Vernon Hebert and Virges Hebert shall not exceed $5,000 each; for deaths of Leon Worrell and Earl McClure shall not exceed $5,000 each, and for injuries and damage of W. F. Cobb shall not exceed $5,000.
Sec. 2.
Suit upon such claims may be instituted at any time within one year after the enactment of this Act, and proceedings for the
Proceedings, appeals, judgments.
determination thereof, appeals therefrom, and payment of any judgments thereon shall be in the same manner as in the cases of suits over which such court has jurisdiction under the provisions of the
twentieth paragraph of section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended.
Approved, June 25, 1938.