Case Summary

Mabel Best petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve her twelve-year-old daughter, Isabel Sanderson, from the child's father, Jonathan Sanderson, which was granted. At the hearing, Mabel and Jonathan agreed to share custody of their daughter, modifying an earlier agreement recorded on page 665 of court journal number 71. It appears that the writ was amicably dismissed.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Interpersonal

Petition subtype(s)

• Child custody

Outcome

Writ dismissed

Fate of bound party

New custody arrangement reached

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket M, p. 205; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #80: July 1920-March 1921, p. 145

Source material(s)

Docket | Journal

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

Tag(s)

• Children

People

• Sanderson, Isabel (bound party)
• Best, Mabel Sanderson (petitioner)
• Sanderson, Jonathan (respondent)
• Sanderson, Jonathan (responding party)
• Sanderson, Jonathan (holding party)
• Morning, William McClellen (judge)
• Hagelin, Richard H. (petitioner attorney)
• Wolfenberger, Andrew G. (respondent attorney)
• Anderson, Ross P. (respondent attorney)

• Additional parties

  Miller, Ira (sheriff)

  Hensel, Claude B. (deputy sheriff)