Ex parte Jong Jim Hong
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
On Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus. The petitioner, Jong Jim Hong, a Chinese person, seeks his discharge from imprisonment or detention at the Detention House at Malone, N. Y., having applied for and been refused admission into the United States; his detention being for the purpose of returning him' to China, whence he came. He claims that he was born in the United States, and that he is a citizen thereof, and as such entitled to enter.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The petition for the writ of habeas corpus alleges that the relator, Jong Jim Hong, is a Chinese, person, born in the United States of America, and that he is restrained of his liberty and detained by H. R. Sisson, Chinese inspector of the United States, at Malone, N. Y., in what is known as the “Detention House,” an establishment jointly maintained by the United States government and the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company, a foreign railroad corporation, and that the detention is illegal and without any authority of law whatever. ...
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2Cases cited14 opinions
- Den Ex Dem. Murray v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1856
- Fong Yue Ting v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- The Japanese Immigrant CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- United States v. Wong Kim ArkSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Nishimura Ekiu v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Ex Parte Lee KowDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1908