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UNITED STATES v. TRAVIS

No. 5669.

165 F.2d 546 (1947)

UNITED STATES v. TRAVIS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

December 29, 1947.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Casey, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Peyton Ford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry H. Holt, Jr., U. S. Atty., of Norfolk, Va., and J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellant.

Roy L. Sykes and R. Arthur Jett, both of Norfolk, Va., for appellee.

Before PARKER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and COLEMAN, District Judge.

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

O. T. Travis filed a libel in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the United States in which Travis sought damages for the stranding and sinking of his boat Dorothy Frances.

The District Court was given jurisdiction to hear this cause by virtue of Private Law 47, 57 Statute at Large, Part 2, Chap. 110, p. 666, under the provisions of which the United States of America had consented to be sued...

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