Zurbrick v. Traicoff

MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

Traieoff, a citizen of Jugoslavia, shipped from a port in Belgium, as a fireman on a freight boat, to the port of New York. He. arrived at the latter port in October of 1924, went ashore pursuant to regulations issued under the Immigration Act of 1924, and deserted his vessel. Having been arrested November 28,1928, on a warrant of deportation *812directing that he he deported, he instituted this proceeding in the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and was discharged from the custody of the immigration officials on a writ of habeas corpus.

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