Ex Parte Tom Tong
Supreme Court of the United States
ON CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The petitioner was proceeded against criminally in the police court of San Francisco for a misdemeanor in unlawfully establishing, maintaining and carrying on the business of a public laundry. • Being restrained of his liberty under this process, he applied to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California, for' a writ of habeas corpus.
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ON CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The petitioner was proceeded against criminally in the police court of San Francisco for a misdemeanor in unlawfully establishing, maintaining and carrying on the business of a public laundry. • Being restrained of his liberty under this process, he applied to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California, for' a writ of habeas corpus. The judges certified a difference of opinion upon the following questions. At the hearing of said case at the present term of this…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is a writ of habeas corpus sued out of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California by the petitioner, Tom Tong, a subject of the Emperor of China, for the purpose of an inquiry' into the legality of his detention by the chief of police of the city and county of San Francisco, for an alleged violation of an order or ordinance of the board of supervisors of such nity and county regulating the licensing, &c., of public laundries, and the case comes here, before judgment below, on a certificate of division of opinion between the judges holding the court as to…
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