The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-21
"A gu | E 7
DAY
But Little Business
| About the
Courts.
ICIRCUIT COURT
CASES GO OVER
Biting Case Will Be Heard This
Morning Before Judge
Estee.

Just how much the Circuit Cour
lis in need of a second Judge was made
Apparent yesterday by the illness o.
the First Circuit Judge. The latte,
was somewhat indisposed on Tuesday
and felt that he would be unable t.
attend court yesterday. He was re
ported to be i'll with a slight attack OF
the grip and all court matters there.
fore stood continued in their order un-
| til he is able to take his seat again
upon the bench. The February term
of the Circuit Court has just begun
and there are many important cases
! to be tried.
REFUSES TO PAY NOTE.
AS administrator of the estate of
Antoine Fernandes, deceased, ]. A. Ma
COON has brought suit against Man
uel de Gouveia, ct al, to recover $500
on a promissory note given by the de-
PENDANT to the deceased while alive on
January II, 1896, for which security on
land in Kona, Hawaii, was given. The
land consists of $500 acres at Holu-
aloa, Kona, and all the coffee growing
thereon is involved in the transfer to
the decedent, subject. however, to re-
demption by the defendant in case he
makes payment of the amount of the
promissory note, together with interest
at 10 per cent per annum, and the costs
of the proceedings. The complainant
alleges he has demanded payment of
the note, which has been refused, and
he now seeks to have the court order
an accounting and have the land sold
to satisfy the amount of the note, to-
gether with interest.
Counsel for G. C. Biting, contempt
case brought before Judge Estee of the
United States District Court on habeas
corpus proceedings, will appear in court
this morning at 10 o'clock and make an
argument in defense of his client AS
| he has failed to appear in court on
previous occasions and Biting has had
! to appear in his own behalf, an in
/ teresting session is Anticipated.
Judge Estee will hear the case of the
Japan Immigration Company VS.. the
Maunalei Plantation Company.
| The temporary Hawaiian Interpreter,
Eli Crawford, is pronounced one of the
most expert interpreters who has yet
been assigned to duty at the Circuit
Court.
The following taleSmen were Subpoe-
naed yesterday to appear at the Cir
cult Court at 10 O'Clock this morning
D. G. Camarinos, James e. Jaeger, A
w. Keech, P. r. Helm, ]. Veltman, d
M Ross, C. K. Quinn, J. w. Lloyd.
The seventh annual account of Hen
ry Waterhouse and A. Perry, trustees
under the will of ]. H. Wood, was fileo
yesterday in the Circuit Court, giving
receipts at s14,446.56, expenditures a
s14, 297.97 1-3, leaving cash balance or
hand of SASS %. of which sun
1898 2-3 is principal and s94.65 is in
come.
Atkinson & Judd, attorneys for plain
tiffs in the action brought by S. M
Damon, H. E. Waity and S. E. Damon
under the firm name of Bishop &c Co.
against F. w. Mckinney, moved yes
terday to have the defendant declared
in default and the clerk ordered tt
enter Judgment against him on the
ground that no answer had been filed
to the complaint. A certificate of Geo
Lucas, clerk of the court, was filed ir
accordance.