Volume 69
Private Law 84–452
To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the Bartlett Springs Company and certain others.
Approved August 11, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the Bartlett Springs Company and certain others.
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 Northern District of California, Northern Division, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the Bartlett Springs Company, a corporation, C. A. Kuenzell, G. Elizabeth Kuenzell, and H. C. Nead, individually or doing business under the firm name and style of Nead Lumber Company against the United States, arising out of the controversy concerning certain lands in sections 32 and 33, township 16 north, range 8 west, Mount Diablo meridian, in Lake County, California.
Sec. 2.
Suit upon such claims may be instituted at any time within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the lapse 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 case of claims over which such court has jurisdiction under the provisions of section
1346 of title 28 of the United States Code. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as an implication of liability on the part of the United States.
Approved August 11, 1955.