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UNITED STATES v. SHAUGHNESSY

No. 373, Docket 23972.

237 F.2d 307 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. LEE KUM HOY, Lee Kum Cherk, and Lee Moon Wah, Relators-Appellees, v. Edward J. SHAUGHNESSY, District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1956.

Writ of Certiorari Granted January 14, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Gim, New York City, for relators Lee Kum Hoy and Lee Kum Cherk, appellees and cross-appellants.

Edward J. Ennis, New York City, for relator Lee Moon Wah, appellee and cross-appellant, Clifford Forster, New York City, of counsel.

Harold J. Raby, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of New York, New York City (Paul W. Williams, U. S. Atty., and Maurice N. Nessen, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for respondent-appellant and cross-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and FRANK and HINCKS, Circuit Judges.

Writ of Certiorari Granted January 14, 1957. See 77 S.Ct. 355.

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in a habeas corpus proceeding in which the relators are three Chinese-born minors claiming admission to the United States as citizens by derivation from one Lee Ha, concededly an American citizen, alleged to be their father. The respondent is the District Director of the New York District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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