United States ex rel. Him v. Reimer

The applicant has been excluded from admission to the United States because he failed to prove his citizenship. He asserted that the relator, concededly a citizen, was his father; and the question, as always in these cases, was whether the proof was so indisputable that a denial of his paternity could only have proceeded from an entire disregard of the evidence, and an arbitrary disposition not to hear the case upon the merits. The witnesses were examined in great detail as to the Chinese village from which they came, but their testimony developed no substantial inconsistencies. The Board…