Case Summary

Gaston Akoun, Madroche Zitoune, Abraham L. Reed, and S. B. Wadley worked for the Oriental Exhibition Company and were in a separate court with the Company. Akoun et al. were unlawfully detained after a violation of a pretended order of injunction in the original case against the Trans-Missisippi and International and Oriental Exhibition Company. They alleged there was no process according and that they were denied the right to be separately tried for the alleged violation of the injunction. After that trial ended, they were arrested because they had not paid their fines. After filing for the writ of habeas corpus, the writ was allowed, the case was heard, and it was determined they were being unlawfully held so they were released from custody.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Refusal or inability to pay fine
• Violation of injunction

Sites of significance

• Douglas County Jail (Omaha, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Released from custody

Case Citation

RG230 Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 4: Criminal Appearance Docket Books, 1855-1900, Vol. 3: Pages 1-399, Nov. 1897 - Nov. 1898, p. 209 (microfilm); RG230 Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 7: Criminal Case Files, 1897-1920, Box 7: Doc. 3-146 to 3-244, 1898-99, No. 3-209

Source material(s)

Docket | Case File

Length of case file

Between 11 and 20 pages

Repository(s)

• History Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Slabaugh, Willard. W. (judge)
• Powell, Clinton N. (judge)
• Baker, Benjamin S. (judge)
• Akoun, Gaston (petitioner)
• Akoun, Gaston (bound party)
• Zitoune, Madroche (petitioner)
• Zitoune, Madroche (bound party)
• Reed, Abraham L. (petitioner)
• Reed, Abraham L. (bound party)
• Wadley, S. B. (petitioner)
• Wadley, S. B. (bound party)
• McDonald, John W. (respondent)
• McDonald, John W. (holding party)
• McDonald, John W. (responding party)
• Shand, George D. (respondent)
• Shand, George D. (holding party)
• Shand, George D. (responding party)
• Montgomery, Carroll S. (petitioner attorney)

• Additional parties

  Frank, Albyn L. (Clerk)

  Cunningham, Scott R. (Judge for previous case with these petitioners);