Case Summary

Flow and Leona Morton petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve their children, William and Gladys, from the Nebraska Home for Dependent Children, which was granted. After hearing the evidence, William and Gladys were remanded to the custody of the Home's superintendent and their parents ordered to pay the court costs.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Institutional

Petition subtype(s)

• Child custody

Sites of significance

• Nebraska Home for Dependent Children (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ denied

Fate of bound party

Remained in custody

Case Citation

RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 3 Appearance Docket N, p. 262; RG207 Lancaster County Subgroup 9: Series 4 Daily Journal #89: Dec. 1922-April 1923, pp. 346, 359

Source material(s)

Docket | Journal

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

Tag(s)

• Children

People

• Morton, Flow (petitioner)
• Morton, Leona P. (petitioner)
• Morton, William LaVearl (bound party)
• Morton, Gladys Lucile (bound party)
• Driver, Lena M. (respondent)
• Shepherd, Frederick (judge)
• Stewart, Willard E. (judge)
• France, George W. (petitioner attorney)

• Additional parties

  Hensel, Claude B. (sheriff)

  Longstreth, Elza M. (deputy sheriff)