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SAVELIS v. VLACHOS

Misc. No. 460.

137 F.Supp. 389 (1955)

Efstratios SAVELIS, Theodoros Fragidokis, and Photios Theofanou, Petitioners, v. E. VLACHOS, Master of the Greek S. S. Michalakis, E. O. Douglas, Jr., Immigration Inspector at Newport News, Virginia, Paul E. Johnson, Supervisory Immigration Officer at Norfolk, Virginia, and T. A. Esperdy, Deputy Regional Commissioner of Immigration at Richmond, Virginia, and Gilbert Zimmerman, Immigration Service, Richmond, Virginia, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Newport News Division.

November 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morewitz & Morewitz, Newport News, Va., Jacob L. Morewitz, Newport News, Va., for petitioners.

William F. Davis, Asst. U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., and Gilbert Zimmerman, Richmond, Va., Regional Counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, for the Government respondents.

Vandeventer, Black & Meredith, Hugh Meredith and Walter B. Martin, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for the Master and shipowner respondents.

HOFFMAN, Judge.

The three petitioners herein were, at the time of their arrival in this country, bona fide alien crewmen employed on board the Greek vessel Michalakis. The vessel was involved in a collision with a United States Navy ship on or about the 17th day of October, 1955, and immediately went to a shipyard at Newport News for repairs.

Petitioner, Savelis, applied for a writ of habeas corpus, an application for a declaratory judgment and/or an injunction...

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