Wong Wing Sing v. Nagle
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Second Division of the Northern District of California; John S. Partridge, Judge. Application for habeas corpus by Wong Wing Sing and wife against John D. Nagle, as Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of San Francisco. From an order denying the writ, relators appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellants thus state their case:
“This is not the case of a Chinese person applying for admission into the United States for the first time upon the claim that he is a native born citizen; but it is the case of a Chinese person who had been regularly admitted into the United States as a native-born citizen, who had established a residence in the United States, who had not abandoned his residence, who left the United States for a temporary visit to China, and who upon his return applied…
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