Nederlansch - Amerikaansche Stoomvart Maatschappij v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case: This cause arose under the act of February 20, 1907, 34 Stat., 898, known as the Immigration Act. This act superseded the act of March 3, 1903, 32 Stat., 1213, and preceding acts.
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The Reporter’s statement of the case: This cause arose under the act of February 20, 1907, 34 Stat., 898, known as the Immigration Act. This act superseded the act of March 3, 1903, 32 Stat., 1213, and preceding acts. A study of the immigration acts will show that the Government intended that no alien should land in the United States unless and until admitted by proper authority, and that all expenses for the care and custody of aliens until that time were imposed upon the vessel bringing the aliens to this country. Act March 3, 1875, sec. 5, 18 Stat., 477; act March 3,1903, 32 Stat., 1213;…
1Opinion of the CourtHat, Judge
This is a suit brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendants for the actual cost and reasonable value of the maintenance and medical care and treatment furnished by the defendants to a number of aliens who had been brought by the plaintiff to the United States on its steamers. These aliens at the time of their arrival were found to be suffering with certain diseases. Because they were suffering with these diseases it was not practicable for the immigration officials to examine them at the time of their respective arrivals for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not they were…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- United States v. Holland-America LineCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
- Illinois Central Railroad v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1917