Frank Councilman, and Isabelle Councilman, Petitioners and Plaintiffs vs. The State Institution for the Feeble Minded, and J. N. Smith, Superintendent of said Institution

October 19, 1921 - November 3, 1921

Filed before the Marion County Circuit Court (Salem, Oregon)

Case ID: hc.case.or.0040

Case Summary

Frank and Isabelle Councilman petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to retrieve four people, presumably their children, from the State Institution for the Feeble Minded, which was granted. The fates of the writ and of the children are unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

Institutional

Petition subtype(s)

Juvenile detention

Sites of significance

Oregon State Institution for the Feeble Minded (Salem, Oregon)

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

Marion County Circuit Court Journal, Dept. No. 2, Vol. 39, Nov. 1920-Aug. 1922, Accession No. 93A-19, pp. 300-1, 341; Marion County Circuit Court Case Files, Case No. 15607

Source material(s)

Journal

Repository(s)

Oregon State Archives (Salem, Oregon)

State

Oregon

People

Councilman, Frank (petitioner)
Councilman, Isabelle (petitioner)
Councilman, Claud (bound party)
Councilman, Albert (bound party)
Councilman, Clarence (bound party)
Councilman, George (bound party)
Smith, J. N. (respondent)
Smith, J. N. (responding party)
Smith, J. N. (holding party)
Kissinger, C. M. (petitioner attorney)
Benjamin, Joseph A. (respondent attorney)

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Frank Councilman, and Isabelle Councilman, Petitioners and Plaintiffs vs. The State Institution for the Feeble Minded, and J. N. Smith, Superintendent of said Institution.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 23, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/cases/item/hc.case.or.0040