UNITED STATES v. GOON BON JUNE

No. 2076.

19 F.2d 333 (1927)

UNITED STATES v. GOON BON JUNE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 17, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Schenck, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass. (Frederick H. Tarr, U. S. Atty., of Gloucester, Mass., on the brief), for the United States.

Everett Flint Damon, of Boston, Mass. (Walter Bates Farr, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a decree of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacating an order of a United States commissioner for the deportation of a Chinese person who claimed to be an American citizen by birth.

The question presented is whether there was competent evidence upon which the District Court could find that he was born in the United States.

The burden of proof was on the Chinese...

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