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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 662, 663-JUNE 25, 1938 June 25, 1938 [H. R. 6710] [Private, No. 721] Anna Lee Hebert and others. Jurisdiction con- ferred on district court to hear claims of. Prow". Limitation on judg- ments. Time for filing suit. Proceedings, ap- peals, judgments. 28U.S. . 41, par. 20. June 25, 1938 [H. R . 7890] [Private, No. 722] Brooks-Callaway Company. Payment to. 49 Stat. 2345 . Right to recover ad- ditional amount not prejudiced. [CHAPTER 662] AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Anna Lee Hebert, Mrs. Nicholas Hebert, Mr. and Mrs. Dossie E. Worrell, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McClure, and W. F. Cobb. 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 East- ern District of Louisiana, at New Orleans, to hear, determine, and render judgment, as if the United States were suable in tort, upon the claims of Anna Lee Hebert of New Orleans, Louisiana, for personal injuries, of Mrs. Nicholas Hebert, of New Orleans, Louisiana, for the deaths of her children, Vernon Hebert and Virges Hebert, both for- merly of New Orleans, Louisiana; of Mr. and Mrs. Dossie E. Worrell, of Zachary, Louisiana, for the death of their son, Leon Worrell; of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McClure, of Zachary Louisiana, for the death of their son, Earl Roy McClure; and of W. F. Cobb, of Zachary, Louisiana, for personal injuries and damage to his truck, said deaths, personal injuries, and damage having resulted from a collision between the automobile in which Anna Lee Hebert, Vernon Hebert, and Virges Hebert were riding, and a truck operated by the Corps of Engineers, War Department, and a collision between said latter truck and the truck owned by W. F. Cobb, in which he, Leon Worrell, and Earl Roy McClure were riding, on April 28, 1936, on United States High- way Numbered 61, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, near Lutcher, Louisiana: Provided, That the judgments, if any, for injuries of Anna Lee Hebert shall not exceed $4,000; for deaths of Vernon Hebert and Virges Hebert shall not exceed $5,000 each; for deaths of Leon Worrell and Earl McClure shall not exceed $5,000 each, and for injuries and damage of W. F. Cobb shall not exceed $5,000. SEC. 2. Suit upon such claims may be instituted at any time within one year after the enactment of this Act, and proceedings for the determination thereof, appeals therefrom, and payment of any judg- ments thereon shall be in the same manner as in the cases of suits over which such court has jurisdiction under the provisions of the twentieth paragraph of section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended. Approved, June 25, 1938. [CHAPTER 663] AN ACT For the relief of Brooks-Callaway Company. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $28,984.59 to Brooks-Callaway Company, of Atlanta, Georgia, for losses growing out of a contract with the War Department (numbered W-1092 Eng. 3061) on account of the National Industrial Recovery Act, pursuant to the report submitted to Congress, dated June 12, 1937, by the Acting Comptroller General of the United States in response to Private Law Numbered 673, Seventy-fourth Congress. This Act is not to prejudice the right of the claimant company to recover any additional amount which can be satisfac- torily proved to the Comptroller General to also represent losses growing out of this same contract on account of the National Indus- 1398 [52 STAT.

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