Woon Sun Seung v. Proctor

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

Appeal has been taken from an order of the court below denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant arrived at Seattle, Washington on August 4, 1937, from China and applied for admission to the United States as a foreign born son of Woon On, a native born citizen of this country. At the conclusion of a hearing on the application, held by a Board of Special Inquiry, admission was denied on August 20, 1937, by the Board on the ground that appellant had failed to establish the claimed relationship. On appeal from that decision, the Board of Review recommended…