Kane v. Johnson

MORTON, District Judge.

Habeas corpus to the Commissioner of Immigration to secure the discharge of Baptista, who has been excluded by the immigration tribunals, on the ground that she is illiterate, and ordered deported.

She claims admittance as the wife of Jose Lopes Baptista, an alien duly admitted to this country and three years resident here. The marriage ceremony on which the applicant relies took place at the office of the civil government in Aleauede, Portugal, where she lived. It was a marriage by proxy, the husband being represented at the ceremony by his brother. The immigration…