W. & C. T. Jones S. S. Corp. v. Hamilton

WADDILL, District Judge.

This is an action at law brought by the W. & C. T. Jones Steamship Company against Norman R. Hamilton, collector of customs for the ports of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News, individually, to recover a fine of $100 imposed upon the British steamship Ilwen for an alleged violation of section 9 of the act of Congress known as the Immigration Act, approved February 20, 1907 (34 Stat. 901, c. 1134 [Comp. St. 1916, § 4254]). The vessol put into Newport News for bunker coal. There then was upon her a seaman who had signed as a member of her crew at Newcastle, England,…