United States v. Dick

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

Assuming the testimony offered in this case to be true, and regarding it in the light most favorable to the appellant, it establishes these facts: Joe Dick was born in China in 1874. In the same year his father, Joe Kin, came to the United States, and either then or soon afterwards began trading as a merchant in San Francisco. In 1882 the father sent for his son, and the boy was brought over by a cousin, Joe Sing, and went to live in his father’s house and family. In 1886 the father sold out his interest in the business, left the country permanently, and went…