Volume 56
Private Law 77–682
To provide compensation for Mrs. Marion Yarnott for injuries sustained by her in a collision between a United States mail truck and a car in which she was riding as a passenger on May 23, 1940, in Venice, California, and to appropriate money therefor, and for other purposes.
Approved December 5, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide compensation for Mrs. Marion Yarnott for injuries sustained by her in a collision between a United States mail truck and a car in which she was riding as a passenger on May 23, 1940, in Venice, California, and to appropriate money therefor, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Mrs. Marlon Yarnott.
Payment to.
of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Marion Yarnott, of Venice, California, the sum of $2,000, the same to be in full satisfaction and settlement of any claim she may have against the United States Government on account of injuries sustained to her back, spine, legs, and other portions of the body, which were sustained without any fault or wrong on her part, but suffered through the negligent and careless operation of a United States mail truck driven by one G. N. Fellows, a post-office employee in the service of the United States Government, on the streets of the city of Venice, California, on or about May 23, 1940: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in
Proviso.
excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved, December 5, 1942.