Volume 73
Private Law 86–134
For the relief of the estate of Seth E. Libby, Junior.
Approved September 1, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of the estate of Seth E. Libby, Junior.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000 to the estate of Seth E. Libby, Junior, in full settlement of all claims of that estate against the United States as damages for the wrongful death of the said Seth E. Libby, Junior, as the result of an accident which occurred on Madrid-Cadiz highway in Spain on November 26, 1957, involving a United States Air Force vehicle. The operator of the Air Force vehicle in that accident has been determined not to have been acting within the scope of his employment, and the claims based on the accident are not cognizable under the Federal Tort Claims Act provisions now set out in title 28 of the United States Code.
Sec. 2.
No part of the amounts appropriated in this Act in 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 the claims covered by this Act, 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 September 1, 1959.