Case Name: WILLIAMS, Immigration Com'r, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. KLEIN
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1913-06-12
Citations: 206 F. 460
Docket Number: No. 248
Parties: WILLIAMS, Immigration Com’r, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. KLEIN.
Judges: Before COXK, WARD, and NOYES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 206
Pages: 460–461

Head Matter:
WILLIAMS, Immigration Com’r, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. KLEIN.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
June 12, 1913.)
No. 248.
Aliens (§ 49 ) — Exclusion—Pauper. .
Where an alien actress came to the United States with her husband, ' who' was an engineer, and at the time of the first hearing they had property valued at more than $600, and relator had gowns valued at $1,200, a finding that she was not entitled to enter, because she was likely to become a public charge, was unsustainable.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Aliens, Cent. Dig. § 107; Dec. Dig. § 49. ]
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the South•ern District of New York.
Habeas corpus by the United States, on the relation of Karola Klein, to obtain her release from the custody of William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration, under a deportation warrant. From an order directing relator’s discharge (189 Fed. 915), the Commissioner appeals.
Affirmed.
Henry A. Wise, U. S. Atty., and Kenneth M. Spence, Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, for appellant.
Benjamin Levinson, oí New York City, for appellee.
Before COXK, WARD, and NOYES, Circuit Judges.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The only charge against Karola .Klein is that she has no means of support and is liable to become a public charge. This question was considered and decided by Judge Holt when she and Isidor Klein were first arrested in 1911 and he pronounced the assertion that they were likely' to become public charges "strained, far-fetched and almost fantastical."' (C. C.) 189 Fed. 915 We have carefully- examined the testimony and are not disposed to disagree. with this characterization. There is nothing to show that Karola Klein is an immoral person or a pauper.
At the time of the first hearing there was testimony that the aliens had property valued at more than $600. Karola is an actress and came here with gowns valued at $1,200. In the face of this testimony we cannot assume that Karola is unable to support herself. She has been in this country for two years and there is not a particle of proof that she has been supported by charity or at the expense of the public.;
We cannot assume a proposition which has no evidence to sustain it and which is contrary to the proof and all the presumptions to be drawn therefrom.
The order sustaining the writ as to Karola Klein is affirmed.