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GREGORY v. UNITED STATES

No. 45570.

57 F.Supp. 962 (1944)

GREGORY v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

December 4, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Townsend, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

J. W. Hussey, of Washington, D. C., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert N. Anderson and Fred K. Dyar, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, BOOTH, Chief Justice (retired; recalled), and LITTLETON, WHITAKER and MADDEN, Judges.

LITTLETON, Judge.

Plaintiff's first claim that the special act of May 9, 1941, concedes liability cannot be sustained. Special jurisdictional acts such as this one are to be strictly construed, and they are never construed to concede liability unless the language of the act in that regard is very clear. Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 97 Ct. Cl. 613, 663-665. The reports of the Claims Committees of Congress on the act disclose no intention to concede liability...

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