GILLIGAN v. BARTON

No. 16073.

265 F.2d 904 (1959)

Patrick Joseph GILLIGAN, Appellant, v. Lewis D. BARTON, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

April 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Kanefield, St. Louis, Mo. (Murray Steinberg and Richard Marx, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Noel L. Robyn, Asst. U. S. Atty., Clayton, Mo. (Harry Richards, U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Patrick Joseph Gilligan from an order of the District Court entered June 6, 1958, denying his petition for naturalization, filed on May 23, 1956, upon the ground that he was ineligible for citizenship by virtue of Section 315(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 66 Stat. 163, 242, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1426(a).

Gilligan, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, was born in Ireland February 11, 1927; arrived...

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