Legal Opinion

Singh v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided July 16, 1917No. 2860PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California. Petition by Gujar Singh and Inder Singh for a writ of habeas, corpus. Demurrer by the United States being sustained and writ denied, petitioners appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appellants, who are natives of ’India and British subjects, entered the United States at San Francisco in the j'ears 1907 and 1909, respectively. In April, 1915, they were arrested on a warrant charging them with having entered the United Sta.tes from Canada without inspection. Thereafter, and after a hearing before the immigration officials, they were ordered deported. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed on their behalf, to which the United States demurred, and, on the hearing of the demurrer, the record of the Bureau of Immigration in the deportation…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Singh v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1917

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. United States ex rel. Natali v. DayCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
  2. Lidonnici v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1926
  3. United States ex rel. Natali v. DayCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930

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