People of the State of California v. United States

HODGE, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court dismissing appellant’s action for lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter. Appellant filed its “complaint for damages” under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346(b), to recover expenses incurred by the State of California in suppressing an uncontrolled fire on land within the State in the sum of $11,128.76. The complaint alleged that employees of the United States Forest Service set fire to flammable vegetation on land owned and controlled by the United States within the Klamath National Forest in…