UNITED STATES v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

No. 18246.

328 F.2d 729 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roger P. Marquis, and Hugh Nugent, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Francis C. Whelan, U. S. Atty., and James R. Akers, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Atty. Gen. for State of California, Los Angeles, Cal., and George C. Hadley, Richard L. Franck, Charles E. Spencer, Jr., Morse A. Taylor and Robert E. Reed, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before HAMLEY and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and MacBRIDE, District Judge.


BROWNING, Circuit Judge.

The United States sued the State of California in the District Court to recover losses resulting from allegedly negligent acts of State employees in starting a fire in a national forest, and in attempting to extinguish it. The complaint was filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1345, which grants to district courts original jurisdiction over "all" civil actions commenced by the United States.

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