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GEOFROY v. RIGGS

No. 1431.

133 U.S. 258 (1890)

10 S.Ct. 295

33 L.Ed. 642

GEOFROY, v. RIGGS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 3, 1890.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Hubley Ashton for appellants.

Mr. John Selden for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The complainants are both citizens of France. The fact that one of them was born in Pekin, China, does not change his citizenship. His father was a Frenchman, and by the law of France a child of a Frenchman, though born in a foreign country, retains the citizenship of his father. In this case, also, his father was engaged, at the time of the son...

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