Chin Fong v. White
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Habeas corpus proceeding by Chin Fong against Edward White, Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of San Francisco, to se■cure the discharge of petitioner, held by the Commission of Immigration for deportation as a Chinese person not entitled to re-enter the United States under the provisions of the Exclusion Act.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Habeas corpus proceeding by Chin Fong against Edward White, Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of San Francisco, to se■cure the discharge of petitioner, held by the Commission of Immigration for deportation as a Chinese person not entitled to re-enter the United States under the provisions of the Exclusion Act. From the ■order discharging the writ, and remanding petitioner for deportation, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Chin Fong, is a Chinese person who arrived at the port of San Francisco on December 23, 1913, from China on the steamship Persia. He had previously departed from the port of San Francisco for China on November 12, 1912, on the steamship Nile. He claimed the right to re-enter the United States as a returning Chinese merchant. The provisions of the treaty between the United States and China, concluded November 17, 1880 (22 Stat. 826), excluded laborers, but provided that certain subjects of China, including merchants, might “go and come of their own free…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Chin Fong v. BackusSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Ex parte Mac FockDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1913
- Ex parte Chin FongDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1914
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