The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-27
THE DAY IN
THE COURTS
Two Attorneys
Admitted to
Practice.
BRIEF FILED
BY SCHMIDT
Judge Humphreys Defense is
Answered With Many
Citations.


Court opened with very quiet day
yesterday and adjourned about 3 p. m.
until Monday morning. The term will
are attended to.
A lengthy brief was filed yesterday
in the Supreme Court by Andrews and
Peters, attorneys for relator in the
matter of an application of w. 7.
Schmidt for a writ of mandamus
against A. S. Humphreys. The facts
are reviewed and the defense of the
First Circuit Court Judge is taken up
Gus citations being quoted to support
each statement The headings of the
sections of REALTORS brief are in denial
are as follows:
! THE alternative writ was properly
tcntitIed and stated facts sufficient to
ientitie relator to relief
ut is the duty of the Supreme Court
| of the Territory of Hawaii to issue
lmandamus to vacate and set aside il
| legal orders of inferior tribunals, on
authority of the statutes of the Terri
tory of Hawaii, and decision interpret
i ing the same, and like statutes and like
decisions of other jurisdictions"
THAT relator had no other full,
speedy and adequate remedy except by
writ OF mandamus."
THAT the First Judge had no power
or authority to make the order COM
Iplained of
THAT the writ of mandamus does not
ask the Circuit Judge to perform an
| impossibility, as alleged but that ne
! should vacate an illegal, improper and
invalid order"
/ The brief occupies thirteen closely
/ typewriter pages and each paragraph
under the above headings is taken up
lat considerable length, with citations
iof cases of similar nature.
I ADMITTED TO THE BAR,
Application was filed yesterday for ad-
mission to the bar of the Supreme Court
! of the Territory of Hawaii by ]. j.
Dunno. The applicant ayers himself to
he graduate of the Hastings College
of Law of California, and that since the
year 1883 he has been in the practice OF
law as an attorney and counsellor in al
the courts of the State of California
also, in the year 1898, being admitted &c
practice and become an officer of the
Supreme Court of the United States
Certificates of such admissions are filed
with the application; also applicant
/ diploma of graduation from the law de
paTtment OF the University Of Califor
mia Apnderf the degree Of Bachelor o.
Laws and the academic degrees o.
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.
Applicants credentials were accepted
and his application accepted, whereupol
he filed his oath as an attorney. Mr.
Dunno is to be the Assistant Attorne,
General of Hawaii.
Il Rufus A. Lyman yesterday filed an ap
4 plication for admission to the bar witt
the Supreme Court and upon accept
ance of his applica ton fled his oath a
an attorney. His application states tina
he has held the following offices: Loca
; Circuit Judge of the Third Circuit Court
for four years from 1866; secretary t
Governor of Hawaii from April, 1866, t
1865, or thereabouts: Lieutenant Govern
or of Island of Hawaii. from 1868 unit
1.-THE death of His Majesty Lunalilo: Ia
assessor for District of Hilo, for 1862 an
1863, and collector of taxes in Hilo Dis
trict during 1882 and 1888; collector o
taxes for Ramakua, about 1885 and 1886
Police Justice of Hilo from 1877 to 1875
commissioner of private ways and wa
ter rights in Bamakua from 1880 to 1891
deputy sheriff and prosecuting officer Q
Hamakua from 1887 to 1891, and of tn
Island of Hawaii from 1895 to 1900; boun
dairy commissioner for Hawaii from 1S1
to 1879 and from 1894 to the present time
lhe has also acted as Hawaiian interpre
ter at some of the sessions of the Thir
and Fourth Circuits and as assistan
clerk of the Fourth Circuit
Mr.. Lyman also AYERS that he is fla
miliar with the laws of Hawaii and til
lpractice of law in all the courts. an
has read all the ten volumes of the ST.
Ipreme Court decisions.
COURT NOTES
Full and complete satisfaction of juds
| ment was yesterday acknowledged b
the plaintiff in the case of NJ. G. Silv
VS.. Chas. S. Desky, by Robertson & Wi
der. his attorneys.
1 A notice of motion was filed yesterda
! by Francis J. Berry, attorney for d
! PENDANT, in the case of the Territory V
I Endo, giving notice that at 9 ocloc
| this morning defendant win move II
First Circuit Court to set the action e
] trial at an early date.
| PROBATE.
I A supplementary inventory in the e
I tate of Amalia Joy, deceased, was fiji,
yesterday by Mary A. Lee administr
! tor, enumerating articles of person
I property to the value of S55, in additiC
I to the articles already enumerated in
! former inventory.
! GUARDIANSHIP MATTERS.
/ Hearing was had yesterday In 4
First Circuit Court of the petition of
Kahele the adopted father OF Wahin
hooikaika and kaaiahua, for his a
pointment as guardian over the pers
I and estate of said two minors. T
Court granted the petition and appoint
r Kahele guardian under bond of 500.
- a masters report was filed yesterd
in re the guardianship OF William
Hall and Annie Hall, stating that t
master, J. A. Thompson, after exami
i. ing all accounts and reports of VILLA
"a o. Smith, guardian of said minors. fin
In them to be correct in all particulars q