LEE CHOY v. UNITED STATES

No. 6214.

49 F.2d 24 (1931)

LEE CHOY v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 13, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray J. O'Brien, of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Herbert W. Chamberlin, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Sanford B. D. Wood, U. S. Atty., and John Albert Matthewman, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Honolulu, Hawaii, and George J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., and I. M. Peckham, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal.

Before RUDKIN, WILBUR, and SAWTELLE, Circuit Judges.


SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Territory of Hawaii ordering the appellant, Lee Choy, alias Lee Uck Kwong, to be deported to the republic of China.

Appellant is a Chinese person who entered the territory of Hawaii on June 12, 1923. He obtained admission on the ground that he was a native-born citizen of Hawaii who had left the said territory on July 27, 1900, on the steamship Rio de Janeiro...

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