Weedin v. Jew Shuck Kwong

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order discharging from custody a Chinese applicant for admission to the United States, held for deportation under a warrant issued by the Secretary of Labor. The sufficiency of the testimony to warrant the order of deportation is the only question presented for our consideration.

On September 26, 1917, at Forth Worth, Tex., the alleged father of the appellee testified that he was bom in Galveston, Tex.; that he was 28 years of age; that he made a trip to China in 1914, and while there married a woman named Wong Shee; that he and his wife lived…