Fred Williams v. John F. Mulcahey, District Director of Immigration and Naturalization at Detroit, Michigan

This is an appeal from an order of the district court dismissing a complaint seeking injunctive relief from an order of deportation (sub nom. Williams v. Butterfield, D.C.D.E.Mich.1956, 145 F.Supp. 567). The appellant contends that the district court was in error in holding that the administrative finding of alien-age was supported by substantial and probative evidence.

While the evidence at the deportation hearing on the issue of alienage was wholly documentary, it clearly was sufficient to support an inference that the appellant was born in England in 1906. The appellant not only declined to…