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[CANG KAI GUAN v. INSULAR COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS](https://www.lawyerly.ph/juris/view/c101f?user=fbGU2WFpmaitMVEVGZ2lBVW5xZ2RVdz09)
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32 Phil. 102

[ G. R. No. 10828, October 28, 1915 ]

CANG KAI GUAN, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLANT, VS. THE INSULAR COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, DEFENDANT AND APPELLEE.

D E C I S I O N

JOHNSON, J.:

The plaintiff and appellant arrived at the port of  Cebu on the 19th of November, 1914, on the steamship Linan, and asked permission to enter the Philippine Islands.  An investigation was held by the board of special  inquiry who denied the petition of  the plaintiff.

An  appeal was taken  to the Collector of Customs, the Honorable.B. Herstein, who, after considering the facts, affirmed the decision of the board of special inquiry and ordered the said Cang Kai Guan deported.

Later a petition for the writ of habeas corpus was presented in the Court of  First Instance of Cebu.   The cause was submitted to the Honorable Adolph Wislizenus, judge, who, after hearing the respective parties, denied the petition for the writ of habeas  corpus.  From that decision the plaintiff appeals to this court and makes several assignments of error.

From an examination of the record, the  following  facts appear to be undisputed: (first) that the plaintiff arrived at the port of Cebu on the 19th of November, 1914, on the steamship Linan, and asked permission to enter the Philippine Islands; (second)  that he was born in  China and was a Chinaman;  (third) that he was eighteen years of  age; (fourth) that he had never been in the Philippine Islands; (fifth) that his father had died in China about six years before; that his father, for some  years before  his death, had been a merchant in the Philippine Islands; (sixth)  that he was not possessed of the "section six certificate."

The foregoing facts present the question whether or not the minor son of a Chinese merchant may enter the Philippine Islands without the "section six certificate" after the death of his father.   This question has been fully discussed in the case of Tan Lin Jo vs. Collector of Customs (p. 78, ante), and there held that such minor can not enter the Philippine  Islands without  the  "section six  certificate." And without repeating  here the  arguments in that  case, the judgment of the  Court of First Instance is hereby affirmed with costs.  So ordered.

Arellano, C, J., Torres, Carson,  and Araullo, JJ., concur.

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