Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit January 14, 1935, No. 85 (International Mercantile Marine Co. v. Elting)

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by a carrier to recover the sums paid upon twelve fines imposed for bringing in illiterate aliens. It recovered judgment upon one and appealed in eleven. Different considerations apply to each of these and we are obliged to consider them separately.

First Cause of Action.

This alien was a Cuban girl coming in for the first time.