Yee Yet v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. Yee Yet and Yee Kee Guey were adjudged unlawfully in the United States under the Chinese exclusion laws, and ordered deported, and they appeal. This cause comes here upon an appeal from a judgment of the District Court, Western District of New York, adjudging that the appellants were Chinese persons unlawfully within the United States, and ordering them to be deported.
1Per curiam
The appellants were concededly of Chinese descent, and were arrested in July, 1908, after landing in Buffalo from a small boat in which they had been brought across the Niagara river by two men who were subsequently convicted of smuggling other Chinamen at the same time. The sole issue of fact in the case is that they were born in the United States. Their contention is whether they were born in San Francisco in 1886 and 1887, respectively, and left for China with their parents in 1894, from which place they returned in 1908. The witnesses were Moy Dock, who stated that he was their uncle and…
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