William P. Rogers, as Attorney General of the United States of America v. Urho Paavo Patokoski

BOWEN, District Judge.

This is an appeal by appellant Attorney General of the United States from the judgment of the Trial Court in a declaratory judgment action by appellee under Section 1503(a), Title 8, U.S.C.A. 1 That judgment declared appellee to be a United States national and citizen because he was born in Finland of a father who was at the time of appellee’s birth a United States naturalized citizen, although as he admits, appellee had prior to such declaratory judgment served in the Finnish Army 2 and had voted in at least one Finnish political election.

In effect, appellant contends…