Grahl v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; Ferdinand A. Geiger, Judge. Proceeding by the United States against Henry Tador Grahl. From a decree canceling defendant’s certificate of naturalization (247 Fed. 968), defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant in February, 1917, was a German subject when he filed in the circuit court of Fond du Dac county, Wis., his petition to be admitted to United States citizenship. Our government’s declaration of war with Germany on April 6, 1917, gave *489appellant the status of an alien enemy. Tn May, 1917, his petition came on for hearing, after the requisite 90 days’ notice, and a representative of the Bureau of Naturalization objected on the sole ground that section 2171 of the Revised Statutes was a bar to the proceeding. The objection was overruled and a certificate of…
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