United States ex rel. Soo Hoo Chew Yee v. Shaughnessy

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Soo Hoo Chew Yee, relator, pursues the wrong remedy. He uses this habeas corpus proceeding as ancillary to his declaratory judgment action which, in accordance with the provisions of Section 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 903, he commenced in the District Court for the District of Columbia.

Relator claims derivative citizenship as the alleged son of Soo Hoo Fow, who was a citizen of the United States. In pursuance of that claim, he applied to the American Consul at Hong Kong, B. C. C., for documentation as a citizen of the United States. He…