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Patrick Donahoe vs. The United States

April 3, 1860 - May 29, 1860

Filed before the First Judicial District Court for the Territory of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska)

Case ID: hc.case.ne.1468

Case Summary

It appears that Patrick Donahoe was being detained for unspecified reasons. Either he or one W. A. Donahoe petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted. After hearing the evidence, Patrick was released.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

  • Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

  • Cause unspecified

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Released from custody

State

  • Nebraska

People

Source Materials

The complete case file for this petition has not been found. Information here has been gathered from court journals, indexes, or dockets. You may contact the repository and provide the citation information to request digital scans or print copies of those records, but they are not likely to yield more information than is represented here.

Repository(s)

Case citation

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009, U.S. Territorial Court for the First (Omaha) District of the District of Nebraska, Series: Criminal Dockets, 1859 - 1866, Vol. 1, pp. 24-5

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Type of source(s)

Docket

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Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Patrick Donahoe vs. The United States.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed April 4, 2025. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/cases/item/hc.case.ne.1468

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