Hazen v. Donahoe

Wagner, J.-

The defendant is the superintendent of the hospital for the insane at Cherokee, and the plaintiff has been an inmate of said institution since on or about the 25th day of July, 1928, she having been ordered committed to said asylum by the commissioners of insanity of Woodbury County, the place of her residence. On September 26, 1928, plaintiff filed in tbe office of the clerk of the district court of Cherokee County, Iowa, her petition, asking for a writ of habeas corpus, therein stating that she is wrongfully restrained of her liberty by the defendant at the Cherokee state…