PERKINS v. ELG

No. 454.

307 U.S. 325 (1939)

PERKINS, SECRETARY OF LABOR, ET AL. v. ELG.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry F. Butler for Elg.

Solicitor General Jackson, with whom Assistant Attorney General McMahon, and Messrs. William W. Barron, William J. Connor, and Green H. Hackworth were on the brief, for Perkins, Secretary of Labor, et al.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question is whether the plaintiff, Marie Elizabeth Elg, who was born in the United States of Swedish parents then naturalized here, has lost her citizenship and is subject to deportation because of her removal during minority to Sweden, it appearing that her parents resumed their citizenship in that country but that she returned here on attaining majority with...

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