Legal Opinion
United States v. Durrance
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1939No. 8821PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit to recover damages in the sum of $5,000 for the wrongful death of appellee’s father and mother. It was instituted in the court below under a private act, entitled An Act for the Relief of -Evanell Durrance, approved June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 2366). From a judgment against it for $4,383.68, entered upon the verdict of a jury, the United States prosecuted this appeal.
The enactment, upon the construction of which our decision depends, is as follows :
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,…
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