Tillinghast v. Chin Mon ex rel. Chin Yuen

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for Massachusetts in a habeas corpus case.

The applicant, Chin Yuen Yin, 16 years of age in 1927, seeks admission to the country on the ground that he is! the adopted son of Chin Mon, whose citizenship is conceded, and that he was adopted prior to January 1, 1924.

The Board of Special Inquiry, being of the opinion that the applicant had not reasonably shown that he was either a blood or adopted son of Chin Mon, entered an excluding order. From this order an appeal was taken to the Secretary of Labor, and the case was…