Case Summary

Bonnie Manion petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve her two children, Lera and Howard Manion, from the custody of their father, John Manion, which was granted. The sheriff reported that he could not locate John in Lancaster County. The fate of the two children is unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Interpersonal

Petition subtype(s)

• Child custody

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket H, p. 295; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #58: Jan. 1911-Dec. 1911, p. 405

Source material(s)

Docket | Journal

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Manion, Lera (bound party)
• Manion, Howard (bound party)
• Manion, Bonnie (petitioner)
• Manion, John J. (respondent)
• Manion, John J. (responding party)
• Manion, John J. (holding party)
• Cornish, Albert J. (judge)
• Holmes, Edward P. (petitioner attorney)

• Additional parties

  Hoagland, Henry V. (sheriff)

  Dawson, J. T. (deputy sheriff)