Geofroy v. Riggs

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1890-02-03

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Mr. Justioe Field, after stating the case, • delivered the opinion of the court. The complainants are both citizens of France. The fact that one of them was born in Pekin, China, does not change his citizenship. His father was a Frenchman, and by the law of France a child of a Frenchman, though born in a foreign…

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