MOY FONG v. TILLINGHAST

No. 4053.

33 F.2d 125 (1929)

MOY FONG v. TILLINGHAST, Commissioner of Immigration.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

June 12, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett F. Damon, of Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Frederick H. Tarr, U. S. Atty., and John W. Schenck, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass., opposed.


MORTON, District Judge.

The case is somewhat unusual because of the claim of citizenship by the applicant, supported by a Philadelphia birth certificate which he says relates to him. The petitioner says that he was born at Philadelphia, Pa., and has lived there in the Chinese colony and in Trenton, N. J., all his life until he went to China in January, 1926. The birth certificate shows that a person bearing the same name as...

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