Chairman. would any of us have done in such situation? What did Jr. Mizner do? Being a lawyer he consulted his reading. it informed him that a merchant vessel in the ports of another nation is subject to its jurisdiction. Looking for a precedent in his own department. he found one in the Gomez u t:a. found not only a precedent. but an instruction. in his department. Gomez was a political refugee from Nicaragua. and a pasienger on board of the American merchant ship Honduras which had entered0 a Nicaraguan port. He was claimed bythe authorities. Thecaptain of the ship refused to deliver him and put to sea.