Yonejiro Nakasuji v. Seager

COSGRAVE, District Judge.

The fishing boat Western Enterprise, Yonejiro Nakasuji, master and part owner, *411on March 4, 1931, cleared from the port of San Pedro, C'al., for Ensenada, Mexico, proceeding in ballast. At Ensenada on March 5th the master signed on as additional members of his crew five Japanese aliens whose presence has given rise to this litigation. The boat then proceeded in ballast to San Pedro, arriving there on the morning of March 6th. The United States immigration inspector boarded the boat and questioned the bona fide status of the aliens signed on at Mexico the day before as…