Hawkins v. United States

*372Upon defendant’s motion for new trial, which was denied June 29,1942, the following opinion was filed:

The defendant seeks a new trial because the court held that the act conferring jurisdiction upon the court imposed a legal liability upon the Government, although there had been no such liability before the passage of the act, and left nothing for the court to do but determine the amount of plaintiff’s damage. The defendant urges that the language of the act and its legislative history show that Congress did not intend to create a new and special liability for the benefit of this plaintiff,…