Case Summary

James Graham petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve his brother-in-law, Joseph Ohlson, from the Ingleside Hospital for the Insane, now the Hastings Regional Center, which was granted. Several physicians testified that Ohlson was not well enough to be released. After hearing the evidence, Ohlson was remanded to the custody of the hospital superintendent.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Institutional

Petition subtype(s)

• Insanity

Sites of significance

• Ingleside Hospital for the Insane (Ingleside, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ denied

Fate of bound party

Remained in custody

Case Citation

RG213 Adams County Subgroup 7: Series 2 Adams County Judge's Docket, Vol 3: June 1897-Oct 1912, pp. 359-362

Source material(s)

Docket

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Ohlson, Joseph Edward (bound party)
• Graham, James B. (petitioner)
• Kern, William B. (respondent)
• Kern, William B. (responding party)
• Kern, William B. (holding party)
• Button, William F. (judge)
• Christy, S. W. (petitioner attorney)
• Coule, L. E. (petitioner attorney)
• Snider, John (respondent attorney)

• Additional parties

  Beghtol, James V. (physician, witness)

  Steele, Joseph T. (physician, witness)

  Artz, Charles V. (physician, witness)