In re Ryuzo Higa

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus. The applicant, Ryuzo Higa, arrived at the port of Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii, January 28, 1913, with his -wife, and was refused a landing by the board of special inquiry on the ground of his having a dangerous contagious disease, to-wit, unciniarisis, and ordered to be de*234ported. It also appears incidentally that another ground of the decision of deportation was the finding of the board that he was not a resident of the Territory, — supposedly meaning that he had no domicil there. He appealed to the Secretary of the Department of…