UNITED STATES v. SHAUGHNESSY

No. 42, Docket 21735.

185 F.2d 347 (1950)

UNITED STATES ex rel. WICZYNSKI v. SHAUGHNESSY.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Sexton, New York City, Irving H. Saypol, United States Attorney, New York City, Louis Steinberg, District Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Department of Justice, and Lester Friedman, Attorney, Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Department of Justice, New York City, of counsel, for appellant.

Alfred S. Holmes, New York City, Joel G. Watsky, New York City, for appellee.

Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and SWAN and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a final order on a writ of habeas corpus discharging an alien from custody under an order of deportation. The only question is whether the order of deportation directed the alien to be delivered to a destination authorized by the statute. The facts were as follows. Wiczynski, the alien, was born in the city of Danzig in 1907 while that city was within the German Reich; he was therefore a German subject. He first came to...

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