United States ex rel. Frumcair v. Reimer

PATTERSON, District Judge.

A writ of habeas corpus was issued to try the relator’s claim that she is being excluded from the country unlawfully. The relator, an alien, came here from Europe as a temporary visitor. On arrival she was subjected to medical examination. The medical officers gave a certificate that she was afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease not easily curable, ringworm of the toenails. With the certificate before it, a board of special inquiry at Ellis Island ordered exclusion. The relator’s attorney a few days later asked that the hearing be reopened,…