U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania November 16, 1899 (In re Lipshitz)

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

An applicant for naturalization is a suitor who by his petition institutes a proceeding for the purpose of having the right which he claims judicially determined. The burden is upon him to satisfy the court of the existence of the facts which he necessarily alleges. He must furnish the requisite proof, or he establishes no right. In re Bodek, 68 Fed. 813.