Case Summary

Katie, Dora, and Lillie Sitzman were being detained by the State Board of Control at the Institution for Feeble Minded Youth for unspecified reasons. Their father, Charles Sitzman, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve them, which was granted. After hearing the evidence, the children were remanded to the custody of the respondents and their father ordered to pay the court costs.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Institutional

Petition subtype(s)

• Child custody

Sites of significance

• Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth (Beatrice, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ denied

Fate of bound party

Remained in custody

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket N, p. 3; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #82 Mar 15, 1921 - Oct. 1921, p. 176

Source material(s)

Docket | Journal

Related petitions

• In the Matter of the Application of Edna Brookfield for a Writ of Habeas Corpus

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

Tag(s)

• Corporate respondent
• Children

People

• Sitzman, Charles (petitioner)
• Sitzman, Katie Marie (bound party)
• Sitzman, Dora Louise (bound party)
• Sitzman, Lillie (bound party)
• Oberlies, Louis C. (respondent)
• Allyn, Arthur E. (respondent)
• Worley, Katherine F. (respondent)
• Stewart, Samuel J. (respondent)
• Stewart, Samuel J. (holding party)
• McReynolds, J. C. (petitioner attorney)
• Clements, Elliot J. (judge)

• Additional parties

  Miller, Ira (sheriff)

  Ward, Ernest C. (deputy sheriff)

  Hoover, Jacob R. (representative of the State Board of Control)