CHEONG AH MOY v. UNITED STATES


113 U.S. 216 (1885)

CHEONG AH MOY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 26, 1885.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.S. Brown and Mr. Thomas D. Riordan for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney-General Maury for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error here is a Chinese woman who, arriving at San Francisco from China, was not permitted to land in that city, by reason of the acts of Congress of May 6, 1882, and the amendatory act of 1884, and, being forcibly kept on board the vessel, sued out a writ of habeas corpus to obtain her release.

On a hearing in the Circuit Court of the United States, it was ordered that she be returned...

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