In re Griner
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPLICATION to the Supreme Court, for a writ of habeas corpus, made in term time, by Henry S. Pierpont, on behalf of Frederick Griner, Lewis Suche, Peter Paul Turk, Valentine Paulus, Drauget Augustine, Nicholas Kerr, Titus Werner, and August Barthel, representing, among other things, that they were jointly restrained of their liberty, and jointly imprisoned in the county of Dane, on one and the same pretext and pretended cause, by Col.
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APPLICATION to the Supreme Court, for a writ of habeas corpus, made in term time, by Henry S. Pierpont, on behalf of Frederick Griner, Lewis Suche, Peter Paul Turk, Valentine Paulus, Drauget Augustine, Nicholas Kerr, Titus Werner, and August Barthel, representing, among other things, that they were jointly restrained of their liberty, and jointly imprisoned in the county of Dane, on one and the same pretext and pretended cause, by Col. Daniel J. Dill, to-wit: That one Alfred Marschner, who claimed to be an officer appointed and commissioned by the governor of the state, and not otherwise,…
1Opinion of the Court
*430By the Court,
Cole, J.
This is an application on behalf of Frederick Griner, Louis Sucke, Peter Paul Turk, and others, residents of the county of Manitowoc, who are jointly restrained of their liberty and are jointly imprisoned in the county of Dane, on the same cause or pretext; for a writ of habeas corpus to discharge them from military restraint or control.
The petition sets forth and states that they were all drafted as militia-men, by a draft commissioner appointed to make the draft for Manitowoc county; and they allege and insist that the said draft was and is, wholly illegal and void.…
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