Case of the Chinese Wife

Field, Justice.

Too Cheong is a Chinese laborer, and resided in the United States, November 17, 1880, and until September, 1883, when he made a visit to China. While there he married a Chinese woman, who, from her appearance in court, must be a mere child, lie returned in September of the present year, bringing his wife with him. Before his departure he obtained from the collector of the port the necessary certificate to enable him to return to the United States. It, however, gave him no authority to bring another person with him. The fiction of the law as to the unity of the two spouses does…