Proctor

Wong Gim Ngoon v. Proctor

Good Law
93 F.2d 704·1937 U.S. App. LEXIS 2893
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 14, 1937No. 8588California3,508 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Haney, J.

The court below denied a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by appellant, and from the order denying the writ this appeal was taken.

Appellant is a Chinese boy about- 14 years old, who arrived at the port of Seattle on September 30, 1936. He applied for entry into the United States on the ground that he is an alleged foreign-born son of Wong Mon Fay, an alleged native-born citizen of the United States. On October 19, 1936, a Chinese boy named Wong Suey Tung arrived at the same port, and applied to be admitted into the United States as a foreign-born son of Wong Toy, an alleged native-born citizen of the United States. Both applications were considered as a single case. Hearings began on November 16, 1936.

Appellant testified that Wong Mon Fay was his father, who was born in the United States; that his father’s parents were Wong Hung Gee and Lim Shee, who were living in Ock Sing village in China; that his father (Wong Mon Fay) had only one brother and one sister; that Lim Shee had bound feet; and that the windows in the bedroom in their house in China had. no glass.

On the same day the other applicant testified that Wong Toy had four brothers and *705 no sisters; that…

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