Supreme Court of the United States October 24, 1927, 115 and 116 (Nagle v. Loi Hoa)

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Mb. Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondents, Chinese, merchants bom in China and never' naturalized elsewhere, applied at the port óf San Francisco for admission into the United States. They had resided in French Indo-China and been engaged in business there for a number of years. They presented to the.