United States ex rel. Chin Fook Wah v. Dunton

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on a writ of habeas corpus to test the legality of the deportation of Chin Fook Wah. The father of the petitioner is a citizen of the United States, and the only real question of fact before the court is one of identity. The testimony discloses various inconsistencies between the statements of the applicant and members of his family in regard to whether his maternal grandmother is living, whether *960he ever had any sisters, whether he was ever in his father’s store in China, and the ages of the applicant’s cousins.

On the record…