Volume 63
Private Law 81–657
To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Central Division of the Southern District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Mabel Colliver.
Approved October 10, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Central Division of the Southern District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Mabel Colliver.
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 Central Division of the Southern District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Mabel Colliver, of Long Beach, California, for damages allegedly sustained as the result of an accident involving an ambulance owned by the United States Veterans’ Administration at or near the intersection of West Twenty-fourth Street and Blaisdell Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 25, 1944.
Sec.2.
Time limitation.
Suit upon such claim may be instituted at any time within one year after the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the lapse of time or any statute of limitations. Proceedings for the determination of such claim, appeals therefrom, and payment of any judgment thereon, shall be in the same manner as in cases over which such court
28 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1346.
Ante, pp. 62, 101.
has jurisdiction under the provisions of section 1346 of Title 28 of the United States Code.
Approved October 10, 1949.