CHOY YUEN CHAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 5548.

30 F.2d 516 (1929)

CHOY YUEN CHAN v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 14, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie P. Scott, of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Wilmer H. Eberly, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

George J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., and George M. Naus, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., and Sanford B. D. Wood, U. S. Atty., and Charles H. Hogg, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Before GILBERT, RUDKIN, and DIETRICH, Circuit Judges.


GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

On June 4, 1923, the appellant, a person of Chinese descent, coming from China, arrived at the Hawaiian Islands, and, upon a hearing before a Board of Special Inquiry, he was allowed to land, on his proof by himself and his witnesses that he was Hawaiian born. In June, 1927, he was brought before the court below for deportation, and, on the ground that he was a Chinese alien and a laborer and was unlawfully within the United States, he was...

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