In re Ah Yow
District Court, D. Washington
At Law. Petition for habeas corpus in behalf of Ah Tow, a Chinese passenger detained by reason of the refusal of the collector of customs to permit him to land in the United States.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
The petition for a writ of habeas corpus in this case is filed in behalf of a Chinese passenger on hoard the steamship Tacoma, and sets forth that said Chinese person is proprietor of a restaurant in Seattle, to which place he is now returning from a visit to China, and that he is unlawfully detained on said vessel by the master thereof, for the reason that the collector of customs has refused to permit him to land in the United States; and, in the argument, counsel for the petitioner insists that a restaurant keeper is not a “laborer,” in the sense in which that *562word…
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