Spanish Royal Mail Line Agency, Inc. v. United States

(after stating the facts as above).

The plaintiff steamship company, on October 5, 1925, brought to the port of New York one Antonio Angeles, an alien, who upon arrival at Ellis Island was examined before a Board of Special Inquiry, .excluded, and ordered deported upon the ground that he was unable to read. Thereafter a penalty of $1,000, with the addition thereto of $138 passage money, was imposed upon the plaintiff pursuant to the statute above quoted. These amounts were paid under protest, and obviously under duress, in view of the statutory provision requiring the withholding of clearance.

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