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Volume 52

Private Law 75–664

Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claims of Edward Forbes and others.

Approved June 25, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claims of Edward Forbes and others.

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

That jurisdiction is

Edward Forbes and others.

Claims of, referred to Court of Claims.

hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Edward Forbes; J. D. Lee; B. A. Dopeus; D. Shiver; W. P. Shepherd; T. A. Lee; C. J. Aspey; B. A. Morris and L. E, Aspey, as joint adventurers; Ross Winne and Gertrude Whine, husband and wife; C. E. Thomas; Frede Anapu; A. Trivett; Walter T. Danson; M. M. Bryant; E. B. Steele; R. T. Creech; Ida L. Creech; J. W. Ives; Roscoe Lee Braddock; H. A. Braddock; H. C. Warthen; H. H. Wedgworth; F. A. LeFils; R. H. Little; H. Robinson; J. R. Poland; Kreamer Sugar and Syrup Company; C. B. Rawls and W, J. Rawls, a partnership doing business as Rawls Brothers; Tropical Produce Corporation, a Florida, corporation, and B. A. Morris, as joint adventurers; and Knight and Company, Incorporated, a Florida corporation, all of Palm Beach County, Florida, or other persons engaged in farming on Kreamer, Torry, or Ritta Islands, in Lake Okeechobee, for damage to or loss of crops alleged to have resulted from the construction of levees along the Caloosahatchee River and Lake Okeechobee drainage areas in Palm Beach County, Florida, by the Corps of Engineers, War Department, and from high waters caused thereby: Provided, That

Proviso.

Time limitation for filing.

suits hereunder shall be instituted within one year from the enactment of this Act.

Approved, June 25, 1938.

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