Stover v. United States

HALBERT, District Judge.

In these actions for damages (amounting to some $13,000,000) resulting from the inundations of December, 1955, in the Marysville-Yuba City area, the United States has asserted several affirmative defenses (See: Huffmaster v. United States, D.C., 186 F.Supp. 120). 1 Jurisdiction is asserted under the Federal Tort Claims Act (Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346 and 2671 et seq.). The asserted causes of action are for negligence in the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of the levees and other works comprising the Sacramento River Flood Control Project, of…