Case Summary

John Zochol was being detained for unspecified reasons by D. S. Woodard, superintendent of the Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane. He petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted. The fate of Zochul is unknown.

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

Unknown

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket H, p. 151; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #57: Jan. 1910-Jan. 1911, p. 36

Source material(s)

Docket | Journal

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Zochul, John (bound party)
• Zochul, John (petitioner)
• Woodard, D. S. (Woodward) (respondent)
• Woodard, D. S. (Woodward) (responding party)
• Woodard, D. S. (Woodward) (holding party)
• Cornish, Albert J. (judge)
• Allen, Thomas S. (petitioner attorney)
• Talbot, Adolphus R. (petitioner attorney)

• Additional parties

  Hoagland, Henry V. (sheriff)

  Zellars, Clyde B. (deputy sheriff)