UNITED STATES v. COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION


36 F.2d 239 (1929)

UNITED STATES ex rel. LINKLATER v. COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION AT ELLIS ISLAND.

District Court, S. D. New York.

December 5, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shorr, Brodsky & King, of New York City (Carol Weiss King, of New York City, of counsel), for relator.

The United States Attorney (George B. Schoonmaker, of New York City, of counsel), for respondent.


WOOLSEY, District Judge.

The writ is sustained, and the relator is ordered discharged.

There is, apparently, not any question but that the relator, a Scotchman, came first to the United States on July 4, 1907, from Victoria, British Columbia, and entered the United States at Seattle, and that shortly afterwards he settled in Portland, Or. He has, therefore, lived in the United States for 22 years, and the many letters written on his behalf to the Department...

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