Consulich Societa Triestina Di Navigazione v. Elting

The judgment on appeal was entered in an action to recover a fine of $1,000 imposed upon the plaintiff for bringing in an alien, aged 82, suffering from gonorrhoea. Upon discovery of his condition he was sent to a hospital, where he was eventually cured and then admitted. Upon his examination he swore that the line’s physicians at the port of embarkation, Palermo, had examined him, and that “They didn’t find anything with me” (sic); that he had been a widower,for seven years, during which he had been continuously continent; and that he did not know how long he had had the disease — it “must…