Case Summary

Laura M. Parker (formerly Laura M. McCaulley) filed a writ of Habeas Corpus on behalf of her two children, Joyce McCaulley and Ray McCaulley Jr. on April 26th, 1923. Parker claimed that the two children were being deprived of their liberties by being held at Nebraska Eastern Star Home. Sadie Boorman and Bess M. Bauer, representatives of the Star Home claimed that the children were being rightfully kept their, as Ray McCaulley, the children's father had placed them there and paid for their expenses. On January 27th, 1925, the case was dismissed, and the fate of the children are unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Institutional

Petition subtype(s)

• Child custody

Sites of significance

• Nebraska Eastern Star Home (Fremont, Nebraska)

Outcome

Writ dismissed

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

Douglas County District Court, Omaha, NE, RG230: Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series: Criminal Appearance Docket Books, Vol. 26: ca. 1923 - Jan. 1924, p. 19; Douglas County District Court, Omaha, NE, RG230: Douglas County Records, Subgroup 10: District Court, 1855-1972, Series 7: Criminal Case Files, 1897-1920, Reel 113: 25-732 to 26-88, Apr. 16, 1923 - Jun. 4, 1923, No. 26-19

Source material(s)

Docket | Case File

Length of case file

Between 11 and 20 pages

Repository(s)

• Douglas County District Court (Omaha, Nebraska)

State

• Nebraska

People

• Horn, John L. (petitioner attorney)
• McCaulley, Joyce (bound party)
• Boorman, Sadie (respondent)
• Boorman, Sadie (holding party)
• Bauer, Bess (Bess M. Bauer) (respondent)
• Bauer, Bess (Bess M. Bauer) (holding party)
• Battelle, Charles (respondent attorney)
• McCaulley, Ray (Ray McCaulley Jr.) (bound party)
• Goss, Charles A. (judge)
• Parker, Laura M. (Laura M. McCaulley) (petitioner)

• Additional parties

  Smith, Robert (clerk)

  Parker, Ray (petitioner's husband)

  Sutton, A. L. (judge and attorney)

  Sears (judge)

  Vincent, Lola (Vice-president of the Nebraska Eastern Star Home)

  Albertson, Pearl E. (secretary of Star Home)

  Endres, M. L. (Sheriff)

  John M. Hofeldt (deputy)