United States ex rel. Markin v. Curran

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The appellant’s wife and Ms son arrived in tbe United States and applied for admission on December 17,1924. The son was admitted, but the wife was placed in the hospital at Ellis Island. The Board of Special Inquiry heard her application on December 30, 1924, at wMch time medical certificates were offered in evidence, certifying that she was blind in one eye and afflicted with ozena (chronie atrophia rhinitis), and that she had been examined and found to be afflicted with abnormal systematic condition characterized by a positive Wasserman reaction in the blood serum,…