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CHEUNG SUM SHEE v. NAGLE

No. 769.

268 U.S. 336 (1925)

45 S.Ct. 539

69 L.Ed. 985

CHEUNG SUM SHEE ET AL. v. NAGLE, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick D. McKenney and Mr. George A. McGowan, with whom Messrs. John L. McNab, Jackson H. Ralston, Roger O'Donnell, George W. Hott, W.J. Peters, M. Walton Henry, J.P. Fallon, O.P. Stidger, W.G. Becktell, and Gaston Straus were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Donovan, with whom the Solicitor General was on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Henry W. Taft filed a brief as amicus curiae by special leave of Court.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners are alien wives and minor children of resident Chinese merchants lawfully domiciled within the United States. They departed from China on the Steamship President Lincoln, and upon arrival at San Francisco, July 11, 1924, sought permanent admission to the United States. The Secretary of Labor denied their applications and gave the following reasons therefor —

"Neither the mercantile...

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