Sin
Sin v. Nagle
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Wilbur, J.
This is an appeal from a denial of a petition of Wong Guey At for writ of habeas coiqms for the petitioner’s alleged son Wong Wing Sin, who was denied admission to the United States by the immigration authorities and ordered returned to China. The petitioner is an Americañ citizen, and for that reason claims that his alleged son Wong Wing Sin, bom in China, is entitled to admission as an American citizen. He was denied admission because the testimony of petitioner and his alleged sons showed discrepancies which in the judgment of the immigration authorities justified the rejection of their testimony.
We are here dealing with the familiar question as to whether or not such rejection was so arbitrary as to have deprived the applicant for admission of a fair trial. When the alleged father, Wong Guey At, returned from China on January 7, 1900, he stated that he was not married, although he now claims that he was married on March 6, 1898, to the mother of the applicant and of Wong Wing Gong, a prior landed brother of Wong *322 Wing Sin, who was bom January 9, 1899. Wong Wing Gong was admitted to'the United States as an American citizen in July, 1913. He has made several trips to and…