United States ex rel. Koehler v. Corsi

(after stating the facts as above).

It has been urged that the deportation of the relator in June, 1929, was unlawful for reasons now sought to bo advanced. In answer to that it need only bo noticed that he had his day in court and after an adverse decision on his writ of habeas corpus took an appeal which he withdrew. The decision of the District Court then became final, and he was actually deported. Such deportation was therefore one “in pursuance of law” as the expression is used in 8 USCA § 180. What is sometimes called the law of the ease became fixed when the decision of the District…