The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-04-09
JUDICIARY JoTT1Nas.
sundry Decisions g. A. Brown Sued
on a Trust-The Banning Case.

sundry Decisions @. A. Brown Sued
on a Trust-The Banning Case.
Judge Whiting has rendered a de-
cisiou on the contested will of G..
Manaole, admitting it to probate
aud appointing j. Alfred Magoon as
administrator under $500 bond.
Magoon for proponent; G. W. Ash
ford for Elizabeth Harvey, contest
ant.
Judge Whiting has fled a deci-
sion, allowing 7. W. Rawlins ten
days in which to amend his com.
plant against the Honolulu Soap
Works Co. &. Brown and W. A.
Kinney for plaintiff; A. S. Hartwell
and +. NJ. Hatch for defendant.
The same judge decides for the
plaintiff ia the assumpsit suit Of J.
|. Dowsett vs.. Flora Jones aud her
husband Z. Jones, awarding 500
principal and interest of SlOS.I0--
total sos 40. Magoon for plaintiff;
Hartwell for defendant.
Ignacio de Fraga has obtained
Judgment against the Portuguese
Mutual Benefit Society. by a dcci-
sion Of Judge Whiting, for the
amount OF benefits claimed, $40.
with interest from Nov. q, lS93, Of
S5.55. Hartwell aud Porry for plain
tilT: Ncumann for defendant.
Il. S. Spalding aud Z. V. Dudoit,
by their attorney. L. NJ. Hatch, have
filed an answer to the libel of the
Sun and Alliance insurance compa.
nies against the steamer Waimanalo
II reDews the assertions Of Spalding's
libel against the companies, and fur
ther denies all the allegations about
the wilful wreckipg aud abandoning
of the vessel.
Judge Cooper has granted tempo
rary letters Of administ ration to Mrs
+. 5. Pratt, under bond Of 500. in
the matter Of her late husbands es-
tate. W. Foster for petitioner; ".
X. Castle for Mrs. Theresa Cart.
wright.
II. Waterhouse aud 4. ). Hartwell,
trustees under the will OF john II.
Wood, and Florence Jones aud
Pierre Jones, her husband, have
brought a bill in equity To coustrue
will and to authorize trustees 10 pay
income, against Stella VI. Dixon and
Albert i. Dixon, her husband, aud
John 4. W. Dixon, their minor child,
and George Douglas Jones, Nalama.
lua VI. Jones aud Maude Jones,
minor children Of plaintiffs, Florence
Jones aud Pierre Jones. Judge
Cooper appoints ". A. Kinney as
guardian AL litem OF the minor de-.
PENDANTS aud orders that process
issue. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Dixon
are daughters OF the testator, to
whom one third each of the income
is devised, the other one.third being
ordered invested for the testator's
grandchildren. One-third now
amounts to S72633, and the object
OF the bill is to get authority, as 1t is
claimed the will contains, to the
trustees to pay the proportion OF
the income Of the remaining one
third belonging to the Jones chill
dren, for helping to maintain and
educate them, Mrs. Jones to be con-
stituted their guardian to sign re-
ceipis,
The Olowalu Sugar Co. has taken
proceedings TO eject S. Kaalawa
from n piece of crown lands, claim
ing 5000 damages from defendant
for wrongfully occupying the land.
The Banning estate appeal has
Deen before the Supreme Court for
several days--Chief Justice Judd,
First Associate Justice Bickerton
and Mr.. Paul Neunann present, the
latter in place Of Second Associate
Justice Frear, disqualified from
having been OF counsel.
Henry Smith has appraised the
land belonging to the estate of A. A.
Corniot on King street at $500 A.
master in chancery the same gentle,
man has reported the value OF the
estate outside OF this land AS SIG,
0S739, which would make the total
S2O,5s7.39. He submits questions as
to the liability OF certain bequests
to the new legacy taxation, aud as
to the commissions to be due To he
executor.
Judge Whiting has approved the
accounts of Nicholas Peterson as
guardian OF the estate OF Mary T.
Apoe. They show $500 due to the
guardian.
In the matter Of the bankruptcy
of S. EhrlicL, before Judge Whiting
this morning, 10 creditors proved
claims amounting to So, 2,5A7 ~, and
j. +. Hackfeld was elected assignee
under S2O,OOO bonds.
The final account Of y. +, Dilling,
ham, administrator OF the estate OF
A. l.. Smith, has been rcferrNd to C.
+. Peterson, master, Tor exahina,
tion.
A bill in equity has been brough,
by Irene ii. Brown, wife of G.. A.
Brown, joined by her two minor
children and A, f. Judd, guardian
al Item, against &, A. Brown, to
obtain a construction Of the will oi
the late John Ii, father Of the plain,
tiH Tho hill allnu.a "a trngI In fnvnF