Case of the Chinese Wife (1884)(Sawyer, J.)

n[T]he husband is not entitled to bring his wife into the country, she being in fact a Chinese laborer, and never having been here before; and that, upon the marriage of the petitioner in this case with a Chinese laborer, she took upon herself the status of the husband as one of the class who are not now permitted to enter the United States, without reference to her former status.