JOE WAY CHONG v. WEEDIN

No. 4862.

12 F.2d 1015 (1926)

JOE WAY CHONG, Appellant, v. Luther WEEDIN, as Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of Seattle, Washington, Appellee.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 7, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. A. Keenan, of Seattle, Wash., for appellant.

Thos. P. Revelle, U. S. Atty., and C. T. McKinney, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before GILBERT, HUNT, and RUDKIN, Circuit Judges.


GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in the present case is devoid of merit. The appellant was denied his application for admission to the United States as the foreignborn son of Jew Doo Ngow, who had been admitted on May 21, 1909, as the son of Jew Sew, an American-born Chinese. Permission to land was denied on two grounds: First, that his father had never resided in the United States prior to the applicant's birth; and, second, that the evidence failed to show that...

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