WONG SHONG BEEN v. PROCTOR

No. 7834.

79 F.2d 881 (1935)

WONG SHONG BEEN v. PROCTOR.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 12, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Beeler and Edwards E. Merges, both of Seattle, Wash., for appellant.

J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Atty., and F. A. Pellegrini, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Seattle, Wash. (J. P. Sanderson, of Seattle, Wash., U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, on the brief), for appellee.

Before WILBUR, GARRECHT, and MATHEWS, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant's petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant is of the Chinese race and claims to have been born in Nor You How village, China, on April 29, 1913. He arrived at Seattle, Wash., August 14, 1934, and applied for admission into the United States as a citizen thereof by virtue of being a foreign-born son of Wong Fook, a native-born citizen of the...

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