Dollar S. S. Line v. Elting

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

On October 6, 1927, the plaintiff brought from Italy to the United States an alien Bonaria Capula. After examination at the port of New York by publie health surgeons, the alien was found to be afflicted with trach-oma, a dangerous contagious disease, which might have been detected before she sailed by means of a competent medical examination at the foreign port of embarkation.

The alien had purchased passage on the plaintiff’s steamship President Adams from Genoa to Havana, Cuba. The vessel was to proceed to New York and thence to Havana. In addition to her…