Legal Opinion

In re Leong Youk Tong

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon

Decided December 3, 1898No. 2,507PublishedCited by 1 opinion

This is a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus.

1Opinion of the Court

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

A writ of habeas corpus was issued on behalf of Leong Youk Tong upon a petition which alleged that he was unlawfully deprived of his liberty under authority of an order made by T. J. Black, collector of customs for the port of Portland. It was alleged in the petition that the petitioner was and had been a merchant at Portland, Or., since the year 1891; that in the year 1897 he went to China upon, a business trip, and that upon his return to the pdrt of Portland, in July, 1898, he applied for readmission, and *649produced before the collector two white witnesses to prove thq…

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Fong Yue Ting v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
Nishimura Ekiu v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
Lem Moon Sing v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
In re MonacoU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1898
In re KornmehlU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1898

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3Cited by1 opinion

United States v. Wong ChungDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1899