United States ex rel. Man v. Murff

HAND, Circuit Judge.

The District Director of Immigration and Naturalization appeals from an order of Judge Dimock, sustaining a writ of habeas corpus and releasing the relator from the Director’s custody. The relator was born in China and last entered the United States in 1925 as a seaman upon a British ship; concededly he is subject to deportation for having long overstayed the time permissible to a seaman who leaves his ship. Deportation proceedings were begun against him in 1952, a Board of Special Inquiry found him subject to deportation in 1954, and the District Director issued a warrant…