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Wong Quen Luck was discharged from custody after hearing in habeas corpus proceedings before the District Court, and the commissioner of immigration at San Francisco has appealed from the order of discharge.

Wong Quen Luck, about 16 years old, was born in China, and claimed to be the son of Wong Shoon Jung, a native of the United States. Luck applied to be admitted in June, 1915; his application was heard, and finally denied, by the Secretary of Labor, upon the ground that the relationship claimed was not established, in that discrepancies developed in the testimony of some of certain witnesses, particularly with respect to the applicant’s paternal grandfather, and to the time when the alleged father was in China, and to the number and sexes of the children of a neighbor of the applicant in China. In the record it is set forth that the court, having determined that the hearing before the immigration officers upon the application of Luck to enter the United States was unfair, proceeded to determine and hear the application. Thereupon it was stipulated between- counsel for the government and Luck that upon the hearing Luck contended that the discrepancies which appeared in his…