Ellingson v. Superintendent of State Industrial School for Girls

This is an action in habeas corpus, wherein the relator seeks the release of his daughter from the Girls’ Industrial Home. The trial court denied the writ. The relator appeals. We reverse the judgment of the trial court.

November 10, 1944, the county attorney of Cass county filed a petition in the county court for that county, in which he alleged that Evelyn Ellingson, age 16 years, was a delinquent child; that she refused to obey her parents or accept direction from them and was conducting herself in such a manner that she was incorrigible. The petition prayed that she be found to be a…