Olsen v. Todd

HELLENTHAL, District Judge.

This matter came on for hearing upon a petition for writ of habeas corpus on November 2, 1935, at Valdez, Alaska. The petition asserts that the plaintiff is imprisoned at Unalaska Federal jail by the defendants; that said petitioner is not imprisoned or restrained by virtue of a legal judgment of a competent tribunal, civil or criminal, or by virtue of an execution regularly and lawfully issued upon such judgment.

In paragraph three of the petition it is set forth that the plaintiff is restrained by virtue of a purported judgment issued by one Jack Martin, United…