PEOPLE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 38511.

195 F.Supp. 793 (1961)

PEOPLE of The STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and First Doe to Twentieth Doe, both inclusive, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

June 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Mosk, Atty. Gen., Robert H. Connett, Deputy Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

Laurence E. Dayton, U. S. Atty., Robert N. Ensign, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for defendant, the United States.


GOODMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an action by the State of California to recover $11,128.76 in expenses incurred in suppressing a fire which the United States allegedly negligently allowed to spread from the Klamath National Forest to lands owned by others than the United States. The jurisdiction of this Court is invoked under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 60 Stat. 843, as amended; 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b) and 2671-2680. The complaint asserts that the State's claim...

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