Contzen v. United States

Citations

• 179 U.S. 191
• 21 S. Ct. 98
• 45 L. Ed. 148
• 1900 U.S. LEXIS 1858

Syllabus

<p>Texas was an independent State when admitted into the Union, and the effect of the admission was to make its citizens, citizens of the United States. But those who, at that time, could only become citizens by naturalization, were thereupon relegated to the laws of the United States in that behalf.</p> <p>Minor aliens in Texas, separated from their parents, were not made citizens of the United States by the admission, and in order to become such were obliged to comply with the requirements of the laws of the United States.</p> <p>As appellant was a German subject and not a citizen of Texas when Texas became one of the United States, and had not been naturalized when the injury complaiued of was inflicted, the Court of Claims was right in dismissing his petition for want of jurisdiction.</p>