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

nThe policy of the act manifestly is to exclude the entire class of Chinese laborers as a class. The wife of a Chinese laborer is, it seems to me, one of the class,-- that her status partakes of and must follow the status of the husband as one of his class,-- whether she, in fact, labors or not; and, as one of the class, I think the petitioner is excluded by the act, so far as any individual personal right of her own is concerned.