Flynn ex rel. Chin She Yin v. Tillinghast

MORTON, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing a petition for habeas corpus and remanding the petitioner to the immigration authorities for deportation. It was heard on the Immigration Department record, no other evidence being introduced in the District Court.

The petitioner claims admittance to the United States as the son of Chin Hong Goon, a citizen of this country. The citizenship of the alleged father was conceded by the immigration tribunals, but they held that the relationship claimed had not been proved. The present question is whether the…