AMERICA AND JAPAN.
' VIOLATION OP LAND LAW. By Telegraph—Press Asan.—CopyTijut. New York, Oct. 5. At Visalia, California, the State is suing" a Japanese (Sumida) with the object of dispossessing him of 500,000 dollars' worth of agricultural land, charging that he owns part directly and part through a corporation of which he is a stockholder, thus violating the Califomian law forbidding aliens not eligible to citizenship to own land. The case promises to he a test case on. the law. Sumida's attorneys claim that the American-Japanese treaty guarantees Sumida the right of trial in the Federal Court, and they also contend that the United States constitution is involved, because Sumida would b« deprived of rights the Constitution guarantees to all persons in the country. The State contends that, having a right to enact a land law, it has a right to try cases under it.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1920, Page 5
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146AMERICA AND JAPAN. Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1920, Page 5
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