THE CALIFORNIAN LAW
AN IMPORTANT TEST CASE.
NEW YORK, stb October. A Japanese resident in California, named Hsumia, is being sued with the object of dispossessing him of .500,000 dollars' worth of agricultural land. Another' Japanese, Sumida, who owns land partly directly and party through a corporation of -which b,e is a stockholder, is charged with violating the California law which forbids aliens ineligible to citizenship owning land. The case promises to be a test case on the law. Sumida's attorneys claim that the Ameri-can-Japanese Treaty guarantees Sumida the right of trial in the Federal Court. They also contend that the United States Constitution is involved, because Sumida is deprived of his rights, and the Constitution guarantees all persons in the country. The State contends that having the right to enact a land law it has the right to try cases under it.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 7
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