United States ex rel. Milanovic v. Murff

The question for decision is whether Yugoslavia is the country whence the relator came. If, as Judge Palmieri found, it was not, then the order of the Immigration and Naturalization Service deporting Milanovic to Yugoslavia is not authorized by statute1 and the writ was properly issued.

*943A native of Yugoslavia, where his mother still lives, Milanovic served with the Royal Yugoslav Navy in World War II and also fought Tito’s partisan forces in his native country. His father was killed by the partisans during the war. In 1945 Milanovic slipped across the border into Italy and remained there in a…