PETITION OF BENITEZ

No. 585715.

113 F.Supp. 105 (1953)

Petition of BENITEZ.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

June 30, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Shaughnessy, New York City, District Director, Immigration & Naturalization Service.

Monroe Kroll, New York City, U. S. Naturalization Examiner.

Victor Hirshfield, Flushing, N. Y., for petitioner.


MURPHY, District Judge.

This is a petition for naturalization by Jesus Leonides Benitez, and the only question presented is one of statutory "good moral character" in the face of admitted adultery, fornication and illicit cohabitation.

So far as here relevant, the facts found indicate that petitioner is a native and citizen of Cuba, 36 years of age and a seaman continuously employed in runs principally between New York and Cuba from 1942 to 1950. From about...

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