Nagle
Woo Poy Lim v. Nagle
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Wilbur, J.
This is an appeal from' an order dismissing appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Woo Poy Lim claims the right to bo admitted into the United States as a son of Woo Goong Gam, whose citizenship is conceded. The immigration authorities denied the application of tlie appellant for admission and rejected the evidence offered in his behalf on the ground of discrepancies between his testimony and that of Ms alleged father and alleged brothers.
The appellant testified that one of his brothers, Woo Poy Soon, was married and lived with Ms wife, Chin Shee, and one son, named Woo Bok Woon, aged 10, in appellant’s homo in China, while the alleged father and the two previous landed brothers testified that Woo Poy Soon had three sons and one daughter by Ms wife, Chin Shee, and that he had not previously or subsequently married any other person. This contradiction in the testimony is freely admitted, but it is claimed that the appellant may have inadvertently omitted to mention the other two sons and the daughter of Ms alleged brother, because of the fact that Ms answer was voluntary and was not responsive to the question, and that, if the matter had been called to Ms attention or…