Ex parte Chan Shee

The applicant, Chan Shee, came here from China in December, 1914, and sought admission to this country as the wife of Douie On, a resident Chinese merchant. She presented as evidence of her marriage the certificate (in Ratin) of a Catholic missionary, at Canton. Having been denied admission for the sole reason that the Immigration Department was not satisfied that the marriage *580 relation existed, she petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus, and upon a hearing had a demurrer to the petition was sustained, and the petition denied. She was accompanied on her trip here by one Louie Sing, an alleged son of Louie On. He also was denied admission, and likewise applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus, which application was denied. During the pendency of tírese proceedings on habeas corpus .the court received tire impression that Louie Sing was tire infant son of the applicant, Chan Shee, and was a babe in arms. Though denying the petitions for the writs of habeas corpus, the court acting on the belief that this was the case of a young mother with an infant babe, admitted both Chair Shee and Louie Sing to bail pending an appeal from the order of denial. It having…