Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of California
This was an action to recover damages from the defendant [Matthew Nunan] for alleged maltreatment of the plaintiff. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, with the exception of the law of April 4,1870. The act of the legislature of that date, entitled “An act to establish a quarantine for the bay and harbor of San Francisco and sanitary laws for the city and county of San Francisco,” in its second section creates a .board of health for the…
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This was an action to recover damages from the defendant [Matthew Nunan] for alleged maltreatment of the plaintiff. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, with the exception of the law of April 4,1870. The act of the legislature of that date, entitled “An act to establish a quarantine for the bay and harbor of San Francisco and sanitary laws for the city and county of San Francisco,” in its second section creates a .board of health for the city and county of San Francisco, consisting of the mayor of the city and county and four physicians residing there, to…
1Opinion of the Court
FIELD, Circuit Justice.
The plaintiff is a subject of the emperor of China, and the present action is brought to recover damagés for his alleged maltreatment by the defendant, a citizen of the state of California and the sheriff of the city and county of San Francisco. The maltreatment consisted in having wantonly and maliciously cut off the queue of the plaintiff, a queue being worn by all Chinamen, and its deprivation being regarded by them as degrading and as entailing future suffering.-
It appears that in April, 1876, the legislature of California passed an act “concerning lodging-houses…
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