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MENSEVICH v. TOD

No. 148.

264 U.S. 134 (1924)

UNITED STATES EX REL. MENSEVICH v. TOD, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 18, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter Nelles, with whom Mr. Isaac Shorr was on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. George Ross Hull, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, appeared for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1911 Mensevich emigrated from Russia to the United States. In 1921 he was arrested in deportation proceedings, as an alien in this country in violation of law. Act of October 16, 1918, c. 186, §§ 1 and 2, 40 Stat. 1012, as amended June 5, 1920, c. 251, 41 Stat. 1008. After a hearing, the warrant for deportation issued. Then this petition for a writ of habeas corpus was brought in the federal...

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