Legal Opinion

Pintsch Compressing Co. v. Bergin

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts

Decided November 19, 1897No. 624PublishedCited by 8 opinions

This was a petition by the Pintsch Compressing Company against Mary A. Bergin for the purpose of annulling a proceeding under the naturalization laws, whereby the latter was admitted to citizenship.

1Opinion of the Court

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner represents that the respondent has been admitted by (Ms court to become a citizen of the United States when she should not have been, and it prays that her “certificate of naturalization be returned to this court and canceled.” The certificate is a nonessential, but we need not stop at the mere form of prayer of the petition. The only interest the petitioner allege» in the question is that, as a citizen, the respondent has sued the petitioner in this court, and that it is only by force of her apparent citizenship that she is enabled to maintain such a…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Boyd v. Nebraska Ex Rel. ThayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Spratt v. SprattSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  3. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. TisdaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1876

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Tutun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  2. Hamish Scott MacKay Apellant v. Eugene D. McAlexander Acting District Director, District 31, Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959
  3. United States v. KuscheDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1944
  4. Iracema Philippina Simons v. United States of America, and the Estate of John Simons, DeceasedCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1971
  5. United States v. SimonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1909

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