Tom Him v. Nagle

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant claimed citizenship through his father, and the father, in turn, claimed citizenship through his father, the grandfather of the appellant. The alleged grandfather testified that he was married three times; that his first wife, named Yee Shee, died in 1901; that he married his second wife, also named Yee Shee, late in 1902 or early in 1903; that his second wife died in 1918; that he married his third wife in 1922; that he had four sons and one daughter by his first wife; .that he…