United States v. Mar Ying Yuen

Citations

• 123 F. 159
• 1903 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214

Syllabus

<p>1. Federal Courts—Limits of Jurisdiction.</p> <p>A court of the United States lias such jurisdiction only, original or appellate, as is conferred on it by Congress, within the constitutional limits.</p> <p>3. Proceeding for Deportation op Chinese Person—Discharge by Commissioner—Right of Appeal,</p> <p>An appeal by the United States does not lie from an order of a commissioner discharging a Chinese person arrested for being unlawfully in this country. Section 13, Act Sept. 13, 1888, 25 Stat. 479, c. 1015 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1317], which expressly gives the right of appeal to the defendant in ease of conviction, by implication limits such right to him.</p> <p>¶ 1. See Courts, vol. 13, Cent. Dig. § 792.</p>