United States ex rel. Hen Lee v. Sisson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Application by the United States, on the relation of Hen Dee, alias Deong Hen Lee, for a writ of habeas corpus against Harry R. Sisson, as Chinese Inspector, etc. From an order denying the writ, relator appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
[1] September 7, 1915, Hen Lee was arrested while attempting surreptitiously to enter the United States from Canada at Detroit. He was given a fair hearing before the Chinese .and immigration inspector, before whom he testified that he was 25 years of age, was born in San Francisco, from where he removed in 1906 to New York, where he remained until 1910, when he sailed for China from Vancouver, returning to Canada in 1911, where he lived until he was arrested, as above stated, in 1915. Although no witness contradicted his testimony that he was born in San Francisco, the…
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