United States Ex Rel. Mezei v. Shaughnessy, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

The District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the New York District appeals from a final order of the District Court sustaining a writ of 'habeas corpus and directing the conditional release of the relator after twenty-one months’ custody on Ellis Island. The order was entered after respondent had declined to produce certain information called for by the judge in a preliminary decision, D.C.S.D.N.Y., 101 F.Supp. 66. From the facts it appears that Mezei, the relator, was born on Gibraltar in 1897 and thus is a native of Great Britain. He was…