Weedin

Appellant and Ng Lin For, Chinese youths, arrived at Seattle May 23, 1923, and applied for admission as sons of Ng Lin, who was conceded to be an American citizen. After investigation by duly constituted departmental authorities, admission was denied, and thereafter appeal to the Secretary of Labor was dismissed. Writ of habeas corpus was granted as to Ng Lin For, but denied as to Ng Lin Go, on the ground that the relationship claimed was not satisfactorily established. Ng Lin Go appealed.

It is conceded that Ng Lin,, appellant’s alleged father, was in China at a time when *961 he might have become the father of the appellant, and that when he left China in 1904 he had a son, Ng Lin Sing, less than two years old, who came to the United States in January, 1923, about four months prior to the arrival of the appellant and his alleged brother, Ng Lin For. Immigration authorities found discrepancies between the testimony of appellant and his alleged father with respect to their native village; in the testimony of appellant and Ng Lin Sing concerning the schools they attended in China, and with respect to whether the mother was a natural or a bound foot woman.

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