Tillinghast v. Chin Mon ex rel. Chin Yuen

As indicated in Judge BINGHAM’S opinion, I concur with Judge JOHNSON in holding that, the act of 1924 adopts the construction by the courts (Johnson v. Shue Hong [C. C. A.] 300 F. 89 and cases cited) of the former acts as to adoptions prior to 1924; and this without regard to race.

*266Judge BINGHAM’S opinion — -in effect a dissent from that view — seems to me to overlook two controlling principles in statutory construction:(1) That every Legislature, in amending, is assumed to know and adopt the existing status of rights, except as by new provisions, it changes that status;(2) That every act is…