Cheong Ah Moy v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE CALIFORNIA. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Millee
The plaintiff in error here is a Chinese woman who, arriving at San Francisco from China, was not permitted to land in that city, by reason of the acts of Congress ■ of May 6, 1882, and the amendatory act of 1884, and, being forcibly kept on board the vessel, sued out a writ of habeas corpus to obtain her release.
On a hearing in the' Circuit Court of the United States, it was ordered that she be returned on board the vessel in which she came, or some other vessel of the same line, to be carried back to China; and she was placed in the custody of the marshal who was directed to execute the…
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