United States Ex Rel. Guest v. Perkins

BAILEY, Justice.

The petitioner, Winston Guest, was-born in England in 1906. His mother was born in Pennsylvania and married his father, an Englishman, in England in 1905, where all there resided until 1919, when petitioner’s parents separated by mutual consent, and with an agreement that the mother should have the custody of petitioner. The mother and child then came to this country, and a record known as an immigration record or manifest was made under the direction of the United States Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, in which petitioner was described as an alien. Both mother…