Hoo Gan Tze v. Haff

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition for the writ was filed in the District Court on April 8,1932, by Hoo Loy, an American citizen, on behalf of his alleged son, Hoo Gan Tze, the appellant here, who seeks admission to the United States as the foreign-born son of Hoo Loy. The petition alleged: “That the said detained [appellant] arrived at the Port of San Francisco on or about the 8th day of September, 1931, on the steamship President Lincoln, and thereupon made application to enter the United States as a citizen…