In re Lee
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Petition of John Wortley Sastrick Leo to be admitted to citizenship. Denied, without prejudice.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, District Judge.
The petitioner herein, an alien, made and filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States before the enactment of the present Naturalization Act, and in conformity with the law then in force. More than seven years after such act took effect said alien filed his petition for citizenship', without having made any further declaration of intention.
[1] The sole question involved is whether an alien who, before the date of the taking effect of the present Naturalization Act, duly declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and,…
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