TILLINGHAST v. EDMEAD

No. 2307.

31 F.2d 81 (1929)

TILLINGHAST, Immigration Com'r, v. EDMEAD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 18, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Schenck, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass. (Frederick H. Tarr, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.

John T. Lane, of Boston, Mass., for appellee.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for Massachusetts granting the petition of the appellee for a writ of habeas corpus and ordering her discharged from the custody of the Commissioner of Immigration at Boston, by whom she was held for deportation.

The appellee, Phyllis Edmead, is a woman 23 years of age, born in the British West Indies. She arrived in this country on or about the 22d of April, 1924, and was lawfully...

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