White v. Chan Wy Sheung
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Frank H. Rudkin, Judge. Habeas corpus by Chan Wy Shcung against Edward White, Commissioner of Immigration, Port of San Francisco. From a judgment awarding the writ, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GTUBKRT, Circuit Judge.
The appellee was born in Ding Boy ■village, China, and lived there until he left China to come to San [fran-cisco, where he arrived July 23, 1918. He clamed admission on the ground that he was the foreign-horn son of Chan Young, who was alleged to have been born in the United States. He was denied admission after a hearing before a board of special inquiry, a decision which, on appeal to the Secretary of Labor, was affirmed. In the petition for habeas corpus, it was alleged that the decision of the immigration officials, in view of the conclusive character of the…
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