WONG KEW v. WARD

No. 6248.

33 F.Supp. 994 (1940)

WONG KEW ex rel. WONG YOOK v. WARD, United States Com'r of Immigration.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

July 22, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. O'Connell, of Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Edmund J. Brandon, U. S. Atty., and William J. Koen, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass., for defendant.


BREWSTER, District Judge.

For a second time the decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor excluding Wong Yook, who claims citizenship by reason of his birth in San Francisco, California, is challenged. I refused to disturb the earlier decision in habeas corpus proceedings on the ground that the applicant had not sustained his burden of showing that he was born in the United States.

The testimony at the earlier hearing...

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