The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-14
WANTS HER LIBERTY
REBECCA PANEE WILL MAKE
TRUST DEED.

RebeCCa Panee has filed an unusual
petition in the Supreme Court making
a last effort, by her attorney Col.
Thomas Fitch, to struggle out of her
spendthrift trust. The move this time
is a motion to dismiss the appeal, and
Becky offers, if the Supreme justices
will tree her, to put nearly all her prop
erty i'm a trust deed, which she says
will prevent her being a spendthrift as
etfectually as a spendthrift trust.
Rebecca Panee was declared a spend
thrift in 1898, and j. A. Magoon was APP
pointed guardian. In January this
year the trust was declared terminal
ed by Judge Gear but Magoon took an
appeal to the Supreme Court She now
comes forward with an offer to make
trust deed under which she will be-
allowed the income from her property,
if the court will set her free.
In her petition Becky Panee sets forth
that she owns two lots on Maunakea
street worth $4,000, also come land in
Manoa and on Maui. She also has
notes amounting to 1920 the entire
value of her estate being S3l 200.
The petitioner says that she has no
relatives dependent upon her and that
her nearest relative is half-brother,
who is healthy young man, not at all
likely to need her help. She presents
with her petition a copy of the propos-
ed trust deed. which provides that she
is to have the income from her proper
ty while she lives, and at her death the
estate is to go to the half-brother, d.
p. Panee and to child named a. Nj.
Rose.
Becky says that there is nobody in
the world dependent upon her or to
whom she has a right to look for sup
port, and that no waste or squandering
of her estate could affect anybody in
the world except herself.
Dependent says that she is Informed
by her counsel and so states the fact to
be that the true intent and object of
the spendthrift trust law is to guard
those dependent upon spendthrifts and
the spendthrfts themselves, from want
or suffering, and the public from sup
porting such spendthrifts i'm the event
that such spendthrift by drunkenness
idleness, gaming or debauchery should
waste or threaten their estates.
"Deponent while denying that she is
or ever was either a drunkard, a gam
bier, an idler or a debauChed woman,
yet submits herewith a trust deed,
which if permitted by this court she
/ proposes to execute, naming therein as
trustee such person as may be design
| ated or approved by this court, II the
appeal herein can be dismissed and the
order discharging deponent from said
| spendthrift trust approved.
"Deponent AYERS that all the mischief
7 intended to be averted by placing and
keeping her in a spendthrift trust will
be guarded against more affectually
and all the beneficial results of a spend
thrift trust achieved permanently by
the trust deed offered.
"Deponent respectfully petitions your
HonOrs not to reverse the judgment in
/ this action and so submit her unneces-
sarily to the cost veXation and dis
grace of a spendthrift trust. but that
/ by affirming said judgment of discharge
and permitting the execution of said
! trust deed, that you suffer her hereaf-
! ter to enjoy her own estate in her own
way"
The matter will come up for hearing
! in the Supreme Court next Monday.