WONG HO v. DULLES

No. 15626.

261 F.2d 456 (1958)

WONG HO, as Guardian ad Litem of Wong Kwok Wei, Appellant, v. John Foster DULLES, as Secretary of State, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

November 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jackson & Hertogs, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., James R. Dooley, Richard A. Lavine, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before FEE, BARNES and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves one of two plaintiffs who jointly filed an action below for a declaratory judgment of United States citizenship.1 Wong Kwok Keung, one of the two alleged foreign-born sons of Wong Ho, an American citizen of Chinese ancestry,2 won his case; the second Wong Kwok Wei, lost his case. Hence, the latter, sometimes hereinafter referred to as Wei, appeals.

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