State Institution for Feeble-Minded v. Stillman

On May 10, 1944, the juvenile court in and for Buena Yista county ordered that Geraldine Jacobsen, a minor residing in said county, be committed to the State Institution for Feeble-Minded at Woodward, Iowa, and be subject to the jurisdiction of the State Board of Control. She was duly committed to said institution pursuant to said order.

On July, 20, 1945, said Geraldine Jacobsen, acting by her father, filed in the district court of Buena Yista county a petition for a writ of habeas corpus asserting: She is sixteen years of age and is detained at the institution at Woodward pursuant to the…