United States ex rel. Chow Yee Tung v. Harrison

Assuming that the relator must eventually be deported, and assuming also that the delay following the issue of the writ is not to be charged against the deporting authorities, we do not understand that the respondents now profess to sustain the warrant of deportation to Liverpool. At any rate it is clearly indefensible, for upon no theory was Great Britain the country whence the relator came, or whence he embarked, within the meaning of § 156 of Title 8, U.S.C.A. In Lewis v. Frick, 233 U.S. 291, 304, 34 S.Ct. 488, 58 L.Ed. 967, the point was held open whether the terminus ad quern in a…