In re Friedl
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Application by Mathias Friedl for naturalization. On the 13th day of July, 1912, the petitioner filed his application to be admitted as a citizen, alleging therein his allegiance, his birth in Eisenberg, Austria-Hungary, March 20, 1866, and the other facts required by law to be set forth.
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Application by Mathias Friedl for naturalization. On the 13th day of July, 1912, the petitioner filed his application to be admitted as a citizen, alleging therein his allegiance, his birth in Eisenberg, Austria-Hungary, March 20, 1866, and the other facts required by law to be set forth. Attached to and filed with such petition is a certified copy of an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, dated March 25, 1912, entitled: “In the Matter of the Petition of Mathias Friedl, a Declarant in Said Court at No. 6,655, for an‘order correcting said…
1Opinion of the CourtGeiger, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The facts may be summarized thus: The petitioner’s original declaration averred his place of birth to have been Eisenberg, Germany, and his intention to forever renounce allegiance particularly to “William II, emperor of Germany, of which I am now a subject.” In truth he was born at Eisenberg, Austria-Hungary, and was, at the time of his attempted declaration, a subject of its sovereign. More than three years thereafter', the court receiving such declaration ordered its amendment to accord with the truth, reciting in such order that the “error as to his…
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