FOLEY v. WARD

No. 5250.

13 F.Supp. 915 (1936)

FOLEY ex rel. SCHENCK v. WARD, Commissioner of Immigration.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

February 25, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Francis J. W. Ford, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., for Mary H. Ward, Commissioner of Immigration.


SWEENEY, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus praying for the petitioner's discharge from the custody of the immigration officials on the grounds that their decision and order to deport the petitioner is "manifestly unfair," is "arbitrary and unreasonable," and that it is an "error in law."

Deportation proceedings were brought under 8 U.S.C.A. § 155, and 8 U.S.C.A. § 136 (a) and (d).

Section 136 provides for the...

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