United States ex rel. Hom Yuen Jum v. Dunton

LEARNED HAND, District Judge.

There are inconsistencies in the evidence which would in my judgment have authorized the board of special inquiry to exclude the relator had they thought fit to do so, though on the bare record I should myself have agreed with their actual conclusion to admit him as a native American. With the correctness of their action, however, I have nothing to do; they have admitted him by a majority vote, and the question is whether the reversal of their finding is itself open to review on this writ. The caseoso far as I know, is one of first impression, depending upon the…