Woo Hoo v. White
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States fox the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Petition by Woo Hoo, on behalf of Woo Dan, for a writ of habeas corpus against Edward White, as Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of San Francisco. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The court below sustained a demurrer to the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and the appellant takes this appeal. The petition alleged that Woo Dan applied for admission to land as the minor son of Woo Hoo, a regularly domiciled merchant in the United States; that the immigration commissioner denied admission on the ground that the applicant failed to show that he was a minor son of Woo Hoo, which decision was affirmed, on appeal to the Secretary of Labor. The record of the proceedings before the immigration commissioner was made part of the petition…
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