Tang Tun v. Edsell
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO . THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the right of a Chinese person to enter the United States, and whether the inquiry tb determine whether such person should enter was properly conducted, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
On June 22, 1906, Tang Tun and Leung Kum Wui, his wife, Chinese persons, sought entry to the United States at the port of Sumas, State of Washington, and were denied admission by the inspector in charge, whose order was affirmed, by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Application was then made to the District Court of the United States for a writ of habeas corpus.
It was alleged in the petition that Tang Tun was a citizen of the United States, born in 1879, at Seattle, of parents there domiciled; that, in 1884, he went to China, where he remained thirteen years; that, in 1897, he returned to…
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