Yee Et (Ep) v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the El ■ Paso Division of the Western District of Texas; Thomas S. Maxey, Judge. Sixteen proceedings on appeal from orders for the deportation of Yee Et (Ep), Wong Kee, Yee Eeong, Yee Et, Ju Ding, Yee Git, Yee Yuk Jew, Wong Tong, Lew Wun, Fung Get (alias Fung Gat), Mar Hop, Mar Eoon, Louie Fun Jew (alias Louie Fong Jew), Chin Ork (alias Chin Ock), Yee Dune, and Low One.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the El ■ Paso Division of the Western District of Texas; Thomas S. Maxey, Judge. Sixteen proceedings on appeal from orders for the deportation of Yee Et (Ep), Wong Kee, Yee Eeong, Yee Et, Ju Ding, Yee Git, Yee Yuk Jew, Wong Tong, Lew Wun, Fung Get (alias Fung Gat), Mar Hop, Mar Eoon, Louie Fun Jew (alias Louie Fong Jew), Chin Ork (alias Chin Ock), Yee Dune, and Low One. From judgments affirming the orders of deportation, each of the aliens appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, District Judge.
In these 16 cases the appellants were arrested in El Paso on complaint before a United States commission*67er, charging them with being Chinese laborers and unlawfully in the United States in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Laws. The commissioner ordered them deported to China, and, on appeal, his orders were affirmed by the District Court. No reversible errors of law are presented, and substantially only questions of fact are presented by the records.
[1] The rule may be considered settled that in matters of this kind, where; the commissioner sees and hears the…
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