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Ed Olson, et al. v. John Sheehan. Order

Petition Date

November 27, 1888

Earliest Record Date

November 27, 1888

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • Jefferson County (Wash.)

People

  • Olson, Ed (Petitioner)
  • Simpson, Harry (Petitioner)
  • Totterman, William (Petitioner)
  • Darrin, William (Petitioner)
  • Dohran, John (Petitioner)
  • Kaff, Frank (Petitioner)
  • Stuart, Thomas (Petitioner)
  • FitzGerald, G. (Petitioner)
  • Sheehan, John T. (Defendant)
  • Lewis (Attorney petitioner)
  • Gilman, L. C. (Attorney petitioner)
  • Calhoun, J. J. (Attorney defendant)
  • Boyle, Charles E. (Judge)
 

In the District Court before the Honorable Frank Allyn, associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory.

In the matter of the petition of Ed Olson, Harry Simpson, William Totterman, William Darrin, John Dohran, Frank Kaff, Thomas Stuart and G. FitzGerald, for the discharge in Habeas Corpus.)

Upon reading the petition herein and being fully advised, it is ordered that you; John Sheehan, Sheriff of Jefferson County, and jailer therein, do produce before me at CourtHouse in the County of King of the 27th day of November 1888 at the hour of 1 30 oclock pm bodies of Ed Olson, Harry Simpson, William Totterman, WIlliam Darrin, John Dohran, Frank Kaff, Thomas Stuart and G. FitzGerald, as I may then and there hear and determine the causes and matters in this petition complained of.

Charles L. Boyle

Judge.

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Ed Olson, et al. v. John Sheehan. Order.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed April 5, 2025. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0092.003

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