Chapter 240. For the relief of the Eastern Transportation Company
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CHAP. 240.— An Act For the relief of the Eastern Transportation Company. February 16, 1925.[[S. 785](/us/bill/68/s/785).][[Private, No. 162](/us/pvtl/68/162).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Eastern Transportation Company.May bring suit for collision damages to barge “Sweetser Linthicum,” in district court.claim of the Eastern Transportation Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and doing business in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, owner of the barge Sweetser Linthicum, against the United States for damages alleged to have been caused by collision between the said barge and the United States barge Old Dominion in tow of the United States tug Sagamore in Chesapeake Bay on the 25th day of August, 1918, may be sued for by the said Eastern Transportation Company in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court, and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear Jurisdiction of court.and determine such suit and to enter judgment or decree for the amount of such damages and costs, if any, as shall be found to be due against the United States in favor of the Eastern Transportation Company, or against the Eastern Transportation Company in favor of the United States, upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases in admiralty between private parties and with the same rights of appeal: *Provided*, That such notice of the *Provisos.*Notice, etc., to Attorney General.suit shall be given to the Attorney General of the United States as may be provided by order of the said court, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to appear and defend for the United States: *Provided further*, That said suit shall be brought and commenced within Commencement of suit.four months of the date of the passage of this Act.
Approved, February 16, 1925.