United States Ex Rel. Sommerkamp v. Zimmerman, District Director

CLARY, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania discharging a writ of habeas corpus sued out by relator-appellant, Karl I. Zimmerman, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, being respondent.

Appellant was born in Reinfeld, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, on November 20, 1906. He departed from Germany in 1931 and proceeded to the Republic of Guatemala where he was lawfully admitted for permanent residence. At the outbreak of World War No. II he was taken into the custody of the United States…