Sanders v. Clark

McGRANERY, District Judge.

This case is before the court on a motion to dismiss the complaint. Plaintiff is seeking a declaratory judgment as to his nationality status, in pursuance of Section 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 903. He alleges that he is a citizen of the United-States and prays for a judgment which, inter alia, will so declare. The controversy is an outgrowth of a previous denaturalization proceeding, involving plaintiff’s father. Briefly, the facts are these.

Plaintiff was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1913, of German parents. In 1921, plaintiff’s father filed a…