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WEST INDIAN CO. v. ROOT

No. 8880.

151 F.2d 493 (1945)

WEST INDIAN CO., Limited, et al. v. ROOT, Collector of Customs.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renato C. Gaillorenzi, of New York City (George H. T. Dudley, of Charlotte Amalie, V. I., on the brief), for appellants.

Hubert H. Margolies, U. S. Atty., of Washington, D. C., and James A. Bough, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Charlotte Amalie, V. I. (Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Arnold Levy, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MARTIN and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges, and KALODNER, District Judge.

KALODNER, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying plaintiffs the recovery of five fines totaling $5,000 paid by the West Indian Company, Ltd., to the defendant, the Collector of Customs of the Port of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. The fines were imposed by the Attorney General pursuant to Sec. 20(a) of the Immigration Act of 1924, 43 Stat. 153, 8 U.S.C.A. § 167(a), and the Immigration...

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