Chin Yow v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN • DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice.Holmes
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a petition for habeas corpus by a Chinese person, alleging that he is detained unlawfully by the General Manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company on the ground that he is not entitled to enter the United States. The petition alleges that the petitioner is a resident and citizen of the United States, born in San Francisco of parents domiciled there, but •it discloses that the Commissioner- of Immigration at the port of San Francisco, after a hearing,' denied his right to land, and that the Department of Commerce and Labor…
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