Wilcox v. Emmons

HALL, District Judge.

This case involves the powers of the Commanding General of the Western Defense Command under Executive Order Feb. 19, 1942, No. 9066, C.F.R. Tit. 3, p. 1092 Cum.Supp; 7 R.F. 1407, and Law-503, 56 Stat. 173, 18 U.S.C.A. § 97a.

On September 6, 1943, the plaintiff was seized in his home in California and ejected by the use of physical and military force from the State of California by a squad of soldiers acting under the orders of the defendant Commanding General of the Western Defense Command, and was thereafter excluded from the State of California for several months, for…