Peets v. Martin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• court noted that proceedings not adversarial and there is no suit between detainee and officer; rather, officer responds to court’s writ
• “[h]abeas corpus . . . is a special proceeding, civil in character[,] providing a summary remedy open to persons illegally detained”
• “[w]e are unable to find any provision in our [habeas corpus] statutes for service upon respondent of any other process except the writ”
• habeas corpus is special civil proceeding providing summary remedy to detained persons and is not technically adversary in character or \a suit between the applicant and the officer [detaining him]\
• application for writ of habeas corpus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).