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SY JOC LIENG v. SY QUIA

No. 177.

228 U.S. 335 (1913)

33 S.Ct. 514

57 L.Ed. 862

SY JOC LIENG v. GREGORIO SY QUIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jackson H. Ralston, with whom Mr. W. Morgan Shuster, Mr. Clement L. Bouve, Mr. Frederick L. Siddons and Mr. Wm. E. Richardson were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Antonio M. Opisso and Mr. James H. Blount for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal brings under review a decree of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in a suit involving conflicting claims to the estate of a Chinese merchant domiciled in those Islands and there known as Vicente Romero Sy Quia, who died intestate at Manila in 1894. The appellants, who were plaintiffs in the Court of First Instance, claim as descendants of a marriage between the intestate and Yap Puan Niu,...

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