The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-03
DULL DAY
IN COURT
Plenty Of Leisure
For the Judges
Yesterday.
A NUMBER OF:
PAPERS FILED
Deposition of ]. H. Bullock Taken
as Testimony for KimbaIl
5. 5. Co.

on account of the indisposition of the
Judge of the First Circuit Court no
session was held yesterday morning.
In the afternoon a few matters of rou-
tine We're attended to but the day in
court was very dull
! The Supreme Court convened but no
matters came up for hearing A calen-
dar has been arranged for today and
for Thursday.
The case of the Territory VS.. NJ. Alb
reu will be heard by the Supreme Court
at 10 O'Clock this morning and that of
/ Wilson vs.. Liliuokalani Will come up at
80 p. m. On Thursday morning the
case of Comes VS.. the Portuguese Mu-
tual Benevolent Society will be heard,
to be followed Immediately by the
hearing of the motion filed in the Miner
divorce case, In the afternoon IF the
same day the case of Coffield VS. the
Territory of Hawaii will be heard.
COURT NOTES.
Return Of summons was made yeste.-
day in the ejectment case of Chung Man
Sing vs.. Mokanoe Cheung Amana, show
ing service upon the defendant of the
/ Courts citation TO appear before the
! Frances +. Hebron, trustee of the es-
tate of T. II. Hebron, deceased, yester-
day filed her eleventh annual account in
which She charges herself with $40 $50. a
and asks to be allowed S2S.71S43 leaving
| a balance due the estate of 49, 1887.
! c. Kahele was yesterday, by order OF
the Judge of the First Circuit Court, ap-
pc inted guardian Of the persons and
property of Wahinehooikaika and Kaai-
ahua. the minor children of Kaihenui
and Kealoha, under bond of 800.
A stipulation of agreement between the
defendant and plaintiff in the case of
tie Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land
! Company, Limited, was yesterday filed
! for the consideration of the Supreme
Court, submitting additional facts, as
/ follows:
That no act which could be constru-
ed as an act of acceptance of the Act of
( 1890 was done by the Hawaiian Tram
ways Company, Limited. until after the
expiration of the time limit set out in
/ the Act of 1926.
That in the month of June, 1899. the
I Hawaiian Tramways Company, Limited.
notified the Minister of the Interior OF
/ its intention to lay a double track on all
! the roads covered by it's franchise and
jinclosed in the notification to the Minis
ter of the Interior, a statement of the
! proposed alignment of the double track
On the streets, and requested the Minis
! ter of the Interior to notify the compa-
ny II he had any suggestion to make
] as to The grade or alignment. About the
/ 25th of July. 1899, the Minister of the
/ Interior replied to the Hawaiian Tram
ways Company, Limited, stating that he
! had no objection to the laying of the
proposed tracks and no suggestions to
offer as to the grade or alignment, ana
the Hawaiian Tramways Company. Lin
xszl yforl
preparatory to laying the double track"
WONG KWAI MATTER.
Robertson and Wilder attorneys for
the defendant appellant in the case
OF Wong Kwai vs.. Liliuokalani,
yesterday filed in the Supreme
Court a lengthy brief reviewing the evil
dence in the case, and alleging failure
TO prove the several allegations of the
plaintiff which constitute the basis for
the relief sought, upon such statement
Of failure TO prove concluding that the
bill should have been dismissed.
BRIEFS IN GARNISHEE CASE.
/ A brief in the case of \. S. Sachs Dry
Goods Company, Limited, VS.. J. c. Spen-
/ Ger and James F. Morgan. garnishee,
was yesterday filed in the Supreme
Court by Andrews, Peters and Andrade,
attorneys for appellant. This case,
which was appealed from the District
Court of Honolulu on allegations of er-
ror in law, was a suit against j. o.
( Spencer for the sum of $3.50, with gar
inishee proceedings against defendant
James F. Morgan.
brief was also filed in the case by
James f. Morgan, through Peterson &
Matthewman, his attorneys, reviewing
the evidence and arguing the case at
considerable length.
DEPOSITION TAKEN.
The deposition of John H. Bullock, sec
rotary of the Kimball Steamship Compa-
ny, was yesterday completed before A.
G. Kaulukou commissioner appointed by
the Judge of the First Judicial Circuit
to take the dispositions Of John H. Bull
lock and Colonel George Macfarlane in
the case of the Kimban Steamship
Company VS.. Honolulu Meat Market
Company, Limited. Mr.. Bullock is to
leave for San Francisco via the Ven