Ehrlich v. Weber
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Shelby County.— F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor. STATEMENT OF FACTS MADE BY MR. JUSTICE NEIL. This case involves a contest over the ownership and diyision of the estate of Adolph Weber, Jr., deceased.
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PROM SHELBY. Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Shelby County.— F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor. STATEMENT OF FACTS MADE BY MR. JUSTICE NEIL. This case involves a contest over the ownership and diyision of the estate of Adolph Weber, Jr., deceased. The complainant was born in Leipsic, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the 9th day of September, 1860. Between the latter date and the year 1865 or 1866 his father, after cruelly treating Ms mother, Wilhelmina Ehrlich, deserted her and abandoned his family. The said Wilhelmina, after having secured a divorce from her husband, came to this country about the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil
Regardless of whether the said Wilhelmina and her husband Adolph Weher, Sr., were aliens, their children, Emma, and Adolph, Jr., having been born in this country and under its jurisdiction, became at once, by virtue of such birth, American citizens. United, States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S., 649, 18 Sup. Ct, 456, 42 L. Ed., 890.
Rudolph C. Ehrlich, complainant, having been born *717in a foreign country, and hence an alien, Ms status of alienage would be presumed to continue, in the absence of proof that he had denationalized himself or ceased to be a citizen of his native land, and the mere fact…
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