United States v. Phelps Bros. & Co.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The libellant proved to the satisfaction of the judge that the ship had failed to prevent the landing of five of her complement of alien passengers at the place designated by immigration officers. In the view we take it will be unnecessary to consider the evidence by which these facts were established, because we think that on the record before' us there was no basis for a libel in the admiralty. The claimant is an Italian corpo*743ration, operating a line of steamers between New York and Italian ports; it “maintained an office in the City of New York, had in said office…