AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
On October 6, 1927, the plaintiff brought from Italy to the United States an alien Bonaria Capula. After examination at the port of New York by public health surgeons, the alien was found to be afflicted with trachoma, a dangerous contagious disease, which might have been detected before she sailed by means of a competent medical examination at the foreign port of embarkation.
The alien had purchased passage on the plaintiff...
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