Case Summary

Ross Hill was being detained at the Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane. With his mother, Sarah Hill, acting as his agent, he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted. After hearing the evidence, the writ was allowed and Ross released from custody.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Institutional

Petition subtype(s)

• Insanity

Sites of significance

• Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Released from custody

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket G, p. 280; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #52: Jan. 1908-Jan. 1909, pp. 193, 196

Source material(s)

Docket | Journal

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Hill, Ross W. (petitioner)
• Hill, Ross W. (bound party)
• Hay, John T. (respondent)
• Hay, John T. (responding party)
• Hay, John T. (holding party)
• Hill, Sarah M. (petitioner)
• Doyle, Thomas J. (petitioner attorney)
• Cornish, Albert J. (judge)

• Additional parties

  Weiss, M. H. (witness)

  Wigton, H. A. (witness)

  Hoagland, Henry V. (sheriff)

  Osthoff, Frederick W. (deputy sheriff)