Weedin v. Yeung Bon Lip

WEBSTER, District Judge.

The appellee was admitted into the United States as the minor son of a domiciled Chinese treaty merchant as the result of habeas corpus proceedings in the court below, and the government appeals. The appellee is of the Chinese race and a native of China. He arrived at the port of Seattle on August 12, 1929, and applied for admission into the United States as a minor son of Yeung Won Fou, a domiciled Chinese merchant residing at Pittsburg, Pa. He was accorded a hearing before a duly constituted Board of Special Inquiry at Seattle, and his application was denied on three…