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In Re: Frank Stanley Allen

In the matter of the application of FRANK STANLEY ALLEN for a writ of habeas corpus.

G.R. No. 1455 | 1903-10-29

D E C I S I O N


McDONOUGH, J.:

The petitioner, Frank Stanley Allen, who is an alien, claims that he is unlawfully detained and restrained of his liberty in Manila, P. I., by W. Morgan Shuster, as Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago, who threatens to deport the petitioner from the Islands for the reason that said Collector claims that the petitioner is a prohibited alien contract laborer whose importation is forbidden by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1903, entitled "An act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States."

The question as to whether the petitioner is or is not within the class of...