Chapter 843. Conferring jurisdiction upon the Federal District Court of the Western Division of the Western District of Tennessee to hear and determine claims arising from the sinking of the vessel known as the Norman
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CHAP. 843.— An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Federal District Court of the Western Division of the Western District of Tennessee to hear and determine claims arising from the sinking of the vessel known as the Norman.July 3, 1926.[[S. 2273](/us/bill/69/s/2273).][[Private, No. 272](/us/pvtl/69/272).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Norman,” Vessel.Claims arising from sinking of, referred to district court.
That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to hear and determine in actions at law all claims, however arising, irrespective of the amount, for damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, for personal injury, death, or loss or damage to property against the United States of America growing out of the smiting of the vessel known as the Norman on the Mississippi River on or about May 8, 1925, near Memphis, Tennessee, if the party suing would be entitled to redress against the United States in a court of low in respect of such claims in case the United Recovery.States were suable.
Recovery under this Act shall be the sole right *Proviso*.Maximum amount.of recovery for such claims under law of the United States: *Provided* ,That the total amount recovered in any case brought under the provisions of this Act for personal injury or death shall not exceed the sum of $7,500. Should employees elect to sue hereunder their right of recovery shall be limited to the provisions of this Act. Sec. 2. Commencement of suit. Any such claim may be instituted at any time within two years after the passage of this Act notwithstanding the. lapse of time or any statute of limitation.
No statute for the limitation of Procedure.the liability of the owner of any vessel shall be applicable to any such claim. Proceedings in any action under this Act and appeals therefrom and payment of the judgment therein shall, except when Vol. 36, p. 1093.inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be had as in the case of claims over which the court has jurisdiction in actions at law under the first paragraph of paragraph 20 of section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended.
Sec. 3. Service of process, etc. Service on the United States of America under any suit instituted under this Act shall be had on the United States district attorney of the Western Division of the Western District of Tennessee, and the clerk of the United States District Court of said district shall also send to the Attorney General of the United States a certified copy of the summons and declaration so filed, said action1711shall be docketed, and tried as any other suit at law pending in said court and tried by jury had as in other suits at law.
Approved, July 3, 1926.