Ward v. Flynn ex rel. Lee Sui

First Circuit

Ward v. Flynn ex rel. Lee Sui

92 F.2d 416, 1937 U.S. App. LEXIS 4588

CourtCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit

DecidedOctober 19, 1937

DocketNo. 3245

StatusPublished

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Ward v. Flynn ex rel. Lee Sui, 92 F.2d 416, 1937 U.S. App. LEXIS 4588 (1st Cir. 1937).

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PER CURIAM.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which the relator claims to be the daughter of an American citizen of Chinese descent. The Immigration Board, after a full hearing, found that the relator had not estab lished her relationship and recommended that she be deported. The Secretary of Labor so ordered. It was to test the validity of this order that the writ of habeas corpus was brought. In the District Court the writ was sustained and the relator discharged from custody on the ground that the immigration authorities, in reaching the conclusion that they did on the evidence, acted unfairly.

We think the court erred in so finding and ruling. The evidence introduced before the immigration authorities was highly conflicting. The witnesses examined before the Board testified in flat contradiction of what they had stated at prior examinations and when they apparently had no interest to misrepresent. “The. denial of a fair hearing is not established by proving merely that the decision was wrong” — that there was error in weighing the evidence. Tisi v. Tod, 264 U.S. 131, 44 S.Ct. 260, 261, 68 L.Ed. 590; Chin Yow v. United States, 208 U.S. 8, 12, 13, 28 S.Ct. 201, 52 L.Ed. 369; Johnson v. Kock Shing (C.C.A.) 3 F.(2d) 889.

The order of the District Court discharging the relator from custody is vacated, the petition is dismissed, and she is remanded to the custody-of the Commissioner.

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PER CURIAM.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which the relator claims to be the daughter of an American citizen of Chinese descent. The Immigration Board, after a full hearing, found that the relator had not estab lished her relationship and recommended that she be deported. The Secretary of Labor so ordered. It was to test the validity of this order that the writ of habeas corpus was brought. In the District Court the writ was sustained and the relator discharged from custody on the ground that the immigration authorities, in reaching the conclusion that they did on the evidence, acted unfairly.

We think the court erred in so finding and ruling. The evidence introduced before the immigration authorities was highly conflicting. The witnesses examined before the Board testified in flat contradiction of what they had stated at prior examinations and when they apparently had no interest to misrepresent. “The. denial of a fair hearing is not established by proving merely that the decision was wrong” — that there was error in weighing the evidence. Tisi v. Tod, 264 U.S. 131, 44 S.Ct. 260, 261, 68 L.Ed. 590; Chin Yow v. United States, 208 U.S. 8, 12, 13, 28 S.Ct. 201, 52 L.Ed. 369; Johnson v. Kock Shing (C.C.A.) 3 F.(2d) 889.

The order of the District Court discharging the relator from custody is vacated, the petition is dismissed, and she is remanded to the custody-of the Commissioner.

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