WEEDIN v. LEE GOCK DOO

No. 5926.

41 F.2d 129 (1930)

WEEDIN, Immigration Com'r, v. LEE GOCK DOO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 19, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Savage, U. S. Atty., and Hamlet P. Dodd, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Seattle, Wash. (John F. Dunton, U. S. Immigration Service, of Seattle, Wash., on the brief), for appellant.

John J. Sullivan and Michael F. Ward, both of Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before DIETRICH and WILBUR, Circuit Judges; and KERRIGAN, District Judge.


KERRIGAN, District Judge.

Appellee, Lee Gock Doo, was discharged following the granting of a writ of habeas corpus. The Commissioner of Immigration appeals.

Lee Gock Doo applied for admission to the United States as a citizen by virtue of being a foreign-born son of Lee Yuen, a native-born citizen of this country. The citizenship of the father was conceded. The Board of Special Inquiry denied admission upon the ground that relationship had not been satisfactorily...

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