Case Summary

In the summer of 1884, Herman Hadlan was arrested and charged with violating a pair of Olympia, Washington city ordinances prohibiting the sale of liquor without a license. He was found guilty, ordered to pay $5 and court costs, and sent to jail until he could pay. Hadlan petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he had received permission from the city to keep his beer hall and, in any case, that the relevant city ordinances were void. His fate is unclear.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Selling liquor without a license

Sites of significance

• Olympia City Jail (Olympia, Washington)

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

State

• Washington

Point(s) of law cited

Olympia, Washington City Ordinance No. 149|Olympia, Washington City Ordinance No. 191

People

• Hadlan, Herman (petitioner)
• Hadlan, Herman (bound party)
• Brown, D. M. (respondent)
• Brown, D. M. (holding party)
• Brown, D. M. (responding party)
• Hoyt, John Philo (judge)
• Keady, W. F. (authority ordering detention)

• Additional parties

  Maurice, C. W. (Unspecified)

  O’Brien, R. G. (Clerk)

  Shoecraft, R. P. (Deputy Sheriff)

  Israel, G. C. (Notary Public)

  Billings, William (Sheriff, Served Writ)