United States v. Mrs. Gue Lim
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED . STATES POE THE DISTRICT OP WASHINGTON. Distinct appeals were taken direct to this court from the judgment of the District Court of the United States for the District of Washington, Northern Division, in the case of the above defendant in error, Mrs. Gue Lim, and from the judgment of the Western Division of that court in' the cases of Ah Tong, Yee Yuen and Ah Quong, under the fifth clause of the fifth section of the act of March…
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED . STATES POE THE DISTRICT OP WASHINGTON. Distinct appeals were taken direct to this court from the judgment of the District Court of the United States for the District of Washington, Northern Division, in the case of the above defendant in error, Mrs. Gue Lim, and from the judgment of the Western Division of that court in' the cases of Ah Tong, Yee Yuen and Ah Quong, under the fifth clause of the fifth section of the act of March 3,1891, c. 511, creating the Circuit Court of Appeals, 26 Stat. 826, 828, because the cases involve, among other…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The question here arising in regard to the correctness of the decision of the District Court in the case of the married woman depends for its solution upon the construction to be given to the sixth section of the act of Congress of 1884, c. 220, 23 Stat. 115, which is set forth in the margin. 1
That section must be construed in connection with the treaty concluded between this country and China in November, 1880. 22 Stat. 826.
It is contended on the part pf counsel for the Government that by the subsequent treaty of March, 1894,-28 Stat. 1210, the two Governments have agreed that the…
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