In re Wong Kim Ark
District Court, N.D. California
Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Petition granted, and petitioner, Wong Kim Arle, discharged.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District Judge.
A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed on behalf of Wong Kim Ark, alleging that said Wong Kim Ark is unlawfully confined and restrained of his liberty on board of the steamship Coptic, and prevented from landing into the United States, by .John H. Wise, collector of customs at the port of San Francisco, and D. D. Stubbs, general manager of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Company, acting under his authority. It is averred, further, that Wong Kim Ark has the right to enter the United States, because he was born within the United States, and is a citizen…
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