United States v. Holland-America Line

MAYER, District Judge.

This action is submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, setting forth a mass of detail which need not be recited at length.

The basic facts necessary to a decision may be briefly outlined.

The action was brought to recover the sum of $2,167.80 admitted to be the actual cost and reasonable value of the maintenance and medical care and treatment furnished by the plaintiff to a number of aliens (enumerated in Exhibits A and B attached to the complaint), who had been brought to the United States by the defendant upon its steamers and who, at the time of arrival, were found…