Chin Kai Su v. Dulles

BYERS, District Judge.

This action is colloquially known as a 903 suit (Title 8 U.S.C.A. § 903*), in which the plaintiff alleges that denial of his application for a passport or travel document by the American Consul in Hong Kong, was arbitrary and unlawful by reason of the fact that the plaintiff asserts that he is a citizen of the United States in virtue of Section 1993 of the Revised Statutes.**

The question for decision is whether Chin Kai Su, to be called Su, the actual plaintiff, is the son of Chin Jung Thoon, to be called Thoon, (and Ng Shee, his alleged mother — to be called Shee,) who…