White v. Fong Gin Gee
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 by Fong Gin Gee against Edward White, as Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of San Francisco. From a judgment ordering the discharge of the petitioner, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The appellee was at the time in question a Chinese boy of about 20 years of age, and sought entry into this coun*601try at the port of San Francisco upon the alleged ground that he was the son of a Chinese merchant named Fong Chung, doing business as a partner in the Chinese firm of M an Hop Company, having a fixed place of business in the town of Woodland, in Yolo county, Cal. Having been refused entry and ordered deported by the Secretary of Labor, a writ of habeas corpus was applied for in his behalf, under which he was by the court below ordered discharged, from which…
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