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PRIVATE LAW 7 7 8 - J U L Y 3, 1952

Private Law 778 July 3, 1952 [H.R. 1267]

Stamey Construction Co. and Oklahoma Paving Co.

62 Stat. 929. 62 Stat. 928.

Carl M. Campbell and others.

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CHAPTER 556

AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklalioma to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Stamey Construction Company and/or Olilahoma Paving Company,

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 District Court of the Western District of Oklahoma to hear, determine, and render judgment according to law with respect to the loss, if any, sustained by Stamey Construction Company, Hutchinson, Kansas, and/or Oklahoma Paving Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as their interests appear, under Reclamation Bureau contract (12 r-16294), Schedule of Specifications Numbered 1374, Altus project, Oklahoma, arising out of or attributable to the alleged failure of the Government to supply materials as provided for in said contract: Provided, That the passage of this Act shall not be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the Government of the United States. Such judgment shall be subject to appeal by either party pursuant to title 28, United States Code, section 1291, and action thereon by the court of appeals may be reviewed pursuant to title 28, United States Code, section 1254. SEC. 2. If the court shall enter a final judgment in favor of the claimant, the court shall cause such findings and judgment to be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the amount set forth in said findings and judgment to the Stamey Construction Company and the Oklahoma Paving Company, as their interests may appear. Approved July 3, 1952.

Private Law 779 July 3. 1952 [H.R. 1690]

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CHAPTER 557

^ N ACT poj. tije relief of Carl M. Campbell, James R. White, and Frederick J. Powers.

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, (1) to Carl M. Campbell, Greenwood, Massachusetts, a sum sufficient (not to exceed $3,764.91) to satisfy the judgment recovered by the said Carl M. Campbell against Frederick J. Powers, Boston, Massachusetts, on July 17, 1950, in the Superior Court for Suffolk County, Massachusetts (case numbered 384784); (2) to James R. White, Wakefield, Massachusetts, a sum sufficient (not to exceed $4,148.88) to satisfy the judgment recovered by the said James R. White, against Frederick J. Powers on July 17, 1950, in the Superior Court for Suffolk County, Massachusetts (case numbered 384814); and (3) to the said Frederick J. Powers, a sum equal to $7,913.79 less the amounts paid by the Secretary of the Treasury under (1) and (2), but in no case to exceed the total amount which may have been paid by the said Frederick J. Powers in partial or full satisfaction of such judgments. The payment of the sums specified in (1) and (2) shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Carl M. Campbell and James R. White against the United States and the said Frederick J. Powers arising out of a collision which occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1942, between a mail truck operated by Frederick J. Powers as an employee