CHUNG FON KWONG v. TILLINGHAST


35 F.2d 398 (1929)

CHUNG FON KWONG et al. v. TILLINGHAST, Commissioner of Immigration.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

April 2, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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


MORTON, District Judge.

The question is whether it is so clear that these petitioners are the three Chinese boys who were born in Philadelphia, and whose birth records there were produced before the immigration tribunals, that the refusal to accept the evidence in their favor was unreasonable and arbitrary. It is a matter of identification, involving a question of citizenship.

On their own stories the petitioners were...

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