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DAMON EX REL. FONG HANG LEONG v. JOHNSON

No. 1799.

4 F.2d 1016 (1925)

Everett Flint DAMON, ex rel. FONG HANG LEONG, Petitioner, Appellant, v. John P. JOHNSON, U. S. Commissioner of Immigration, Respondent, Appellee.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 17, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett Flint Damon, of Boston, Mass., for appellant.

Robert O. Harris, U. S. Atty., and John W. Schenck, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass. (Harold P. Williams, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, JJ.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

Fong Hang Leong claims to be the foreign-born son of Fong Ging and that Fong Ging is an American citizen. The immigration officials held against both contentions — that Fong Ging was not proved to be of American birth, and that the applicant (a man 38 years old, with three or four children) was not proved to be Fong Ging's son. On petition for habeas corpus the District Court said: "The immigration authorities gave careful attention...

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