William R. Day

“ The principle, reaffirmed in the case just quoted, is applicable here, for the reason that the claim presented sounded in tort, and was in substance an action to recover for the wrongful acts of the United States officials in compelling the claimant to pay under duress and without authority of law the sums sued for. Following the well-established construction of the Tucker Act, as declared in many cases in this court, we think that the Court of Claims should have dismissed the petition because it presented a claim not within its jurisdiction. ”

“ It is alleged that the exaction of such payments of the petitioner, and the making of such threats were entirely without warrant of law; that the Immigration Act provides that, where a suitable building is used for the detention and examination of aliens, the immigration officials shall there take charge of such aliens and the transportation companies shall be relieved of the responsibility for their detention thereafter; that there was in the port of New York a suitable building for the detention and examination of aliens ”

“ United States, 155 U.S. 163, 15 Sup. Ct. 85, 39 L. Ed. 108; United States v. Buffalo Pitts Co., 234 U.S. 228, 34 Sup. Ct. 840, 58 L. Ed. 1290; Tempel v. United States, 248 U.S. 121, 39 Sup. Ct. 56, 63 L. Ed. 162; Ball Engineering Co. v. ”