Wong Kew ex rel. Wong Yook v. Ward

BREWSTER, District Judge.

For a second time the decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor excluding Wong Yook, who claims citizenship by reason of his birth in San Francisco, California, is challenged. I refused to disturb the earlier decision in habeas corpus proceedings on the ground that the applicant had not sustained his burden of showing that he was born in the United States.

The testimony at the earlier hearing compelled a conclusion that Wong Kew, one of the witnesses testifying for the applicant, had a brother named Wong Yook, who was born in San…