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YU CONG ENG v. TRINIDAD

No. 623.

271 U.S. 500 (1926)

YU CONG ENG ET AL. v. TRINIDAD, COLLECTOR, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, with whom Messrs. Allison D. Gibbs and Mahlon B. Doing were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Paul Shipman Andrews, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Messrs. Gregory Hankin, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Guillermo B. Guevara, A.R. Stallings, Charles R. Brice, and Stanley Suydam were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT prepared the opinion of the Court.1

This case comes here on a writ of certiorari to review a decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands denying an original petition for prohibition against the enforcement by criminal prosecution of Act No. 2972 of the Philippine Legislature, known as the Chinese Book-keeping Act, on the ground of its invalidity. The petitioner...

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