WONG HING FUN v. ESPERDY

No. 498, Docket 28587.

335 F.2d 656 (1964)

WONG HING FUN and Ng Sui Sang, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. P. A. ESPERDY, District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, New York District, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 20, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jules E. Coven, New York City (Lebenkoff & Coven, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Roy Babitt, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty. (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before MOORE, SMITH and MARSHALL, Circuit Judges.


MARSHALL, Circuit Judge:

Appellants are natives of China who arrived in this country as crewmen on vessels putting in at United States ports. Wong Hing Fun arrived on June 30, 1962; Ng Sui Sang arrived on December 20, 1962. Both sought shore leave under section 252 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1282. The immigrant inspector denied leave, because of appellants' failure to possess passports or other valid travel documents. However...

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