Ward v. Flynn ex rel. Yee Gim Lung

MORTON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Commissioner of Immigration from a decree of the District Court in habeas corpus proceedings which held, in effect, that Yee Gim Lung, who will be referred to as the petitioner, had so clearly established his status as an American citizen and his right to enter this country that the denial of his claim by the immigration tribunals was arbitrary and unfair; and the court accordingly discharged the petitioner. It was conceded by the immigration tribunals that the American citizenship of the alleged father was established.

The only question in…