North Noonday Mining Co. v. Orient Mining Co.

All the points made, by defendant on motion for new trial were fully argued and considered at the trial, and I see no good reason for changing the rulings then made. The point most confidently relied on by defendant seems to be the admission of the affidavit of Smith to prove his citizenship. I am not entirely certain that any other evidence was necessary to raise the presumption of citizenship than the fact that he had resided in the United States from his infancy,- — during all the period of his remembrance, — he having no personal knowledge of having been alien born, and no recollection of…