United States Ex Rel. Leong Ding v. Brough

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The applicant, 15 years of age, arrived at the port of New York from China and claimed the right of admission to the United States as the son of a native-born citizen. He was remanded to the Chinese inspector. An examination was conducted before the Board of Special Inquiry, and it decided that the appellant had failed to establish his right to admission as a son of a citizen. Section 1993, Rev. Stat. (8 USCA § 6). The Secretary of Labor affirmed this determination, and a writ of ha beas corpus, allowed by the District Court, was dismissed.

The appellant was examined most…