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On July 8, 1927, the appellant arrived at the pox-t of San Francisco, and made application to enter the United States as the foreign-bom son of Wong Fook Guey, alias Wong Yuk Yen, a native-born American citizen. For want of proof of the alleged relationship and the American citizenship of the alleged father, the application was denied by a Board of Special Inquiry, and, on appeal, the board’s decision was affirmed. The appellant assigns error to the denial of his petition for habeas corpus in which he had alleged, in substance, that the Board of Special Inquiry discredited evidence which conclusively proved his right to admission, and that the rejection of his application was abuse of the authority committed to the board, and that he was denied a fair hearing.

In his testimony before the board; the appellant stated that his father’s names were

*97 Wong Foot Guey and Wong Yuk Yen, and that he died August 8, 1920, at Sacramento, Cal. On the appellant’s behalf, there was introduced in evidence a mortuary record of the state showing that on August 7, 1920, one Toy Wong died at Sacramento, also a typewritten receipt which bore no date, but which bore the signature, both in English…