In re Blair
Wisconsin Supreme Court
• This was a common law certiorari issued to Mr. Justice Smith, to review certain proceedings had before him, upon a writ of habeas corpus in vacation, which was issued by the said justice to bring up the body of the petitioner, who was imprisoned in Milwaukee couuty jail, by the sheriff of said-county (Herman L. Page), by virtue of a precept hereinafter set forth.
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• This was a common law certiorari issued to Mr. Justice Smith, to review certain proceedings had before him, upon a writ of habeas corpus in vacation, which was issued by the said justice to bring up the body of the petitioner, who was imprisoned in Milwaukee couuty jail, by the sheriff of said-county (Herman L. Page), by virtue of a precept hereinafter set forth. The writ of certiorari was allowed by Justice Smith, and was issued on the 25th day of November, A. D. 1854, to which the said justice made the following return, which as some questions of practice were raised thereon and settled…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whiton, C. J.
The return of the plaintiff in error to the writ of habeas corpus sets.out as the cause of the detention of the relator a writ or commitment issuing froni the Circuit Court of Milwaukee county, of which the following is a copy:
“State op Wisconsin, | 7 > ss. Circuit Court, for the County of Milwaukee. 1
“The state of Wisconsin to the sheriff of the county of Milwaukee, greeting.
“ Whereas, on the tenth day of October, of October term, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, the Walworth county Circuit Court in equity, made a final decree in a certain…
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