Mason v. United States

This is a suit involving a claim for. damages to certain oyster beds leased and planted by plaintiff’s intestate, Harry W. Sharpley, caused by sewage emanating from the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Chincoteague, Virginia, and the flow of such, sewage over and across the oyster, grounds.

*649Jurisdiction was conferred upon this court to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the plaintiff’s claim by an Act of Congress approved April 22,1949, Private Law 37, 81st Cong., 1st Sess., 63 Stat. 1089. The Act is as follows:

To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render…