Lui Hip Chin v. Plummer
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the District of Idaho; Frank S. Dietrich, Judge. In the matter of the application of Uui Hip Chin, an alien, for a 'writ of habeas corpus against Lorenzo T. Plummer,'Chinese Immigrant Inspector in Charge at Helena, Montana. From a judgment denying the writ, applicant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the District of Idaho; Frank S. Dietrich, Judge. In the matter of the application of Uui Hip Chin, an alien, for a 'writ of habeas corpus against Lorenzo T. Plummer,'Chinese Immigrant Inspector in Charge at Helena, Montana. From a judgment denying the writ, applicant appeals. The appellant, a Chinese merchant of Canton, China, entered the United States on September 30, 1915, at the port of San Francisco. He exhibited to the immigration authorities certain credentials and a draft drawn by a Canton bank on a bank…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1, 2] The evidence that the appellant had performed labor in the United States consisted in testimony that he had, while staying in Mountain Plome, worked in the restaurant of his brother, whom he was visiting at that place. He denied that he had received pay for his work, and there was no evidence to the contrary. He admitted that his brother had sent him money to pay his fare to Mountain Home, but he also testified that he had a $500 interest in Eah Wah Company, Dupont street, San Francisco, and that he was in Idaho “investigating business locations.”…
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