Melville Fuller

“ The petition was addressed to the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of California; and alleged that the petitioner had taken passage from the agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Hong Kong to the city of Mexico, and received from him a ticket for passage on one of its steamships to the port of San Francisco, and an order upon the agent of the company at that port for passage by rail thence to the city of Mexico ”

“ United States
Argued: January 7, 1902. --- Decided: May 5, 1902
This case was a writ of habeas corpus substantially like the preceding case of Fok Young Yo v. United States, 185 U.S. --, ante, 686, 22 Sup. Ct. Rep. 686. ”