The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-15
COURT TERM
IS ENDED
Jury Waived Cases
Are Cleared
Up.
SUMNER COUNSEL.
DIVIDE $40, 900
Davis Gets Another Fat Fee.
Supreme Court Adiourns
for the Session.

The special September term of court
called by Judge Robinson for the hear
ing of jury waived cases closed yester-
day. Four cases We're disposed of yes
| terday, making a total of forty-five for
the term. The jury waved calendar
is in better condition now than it has
been for many months.
| The last case heard was that of Lee
peka Akeau VS.. Gus Cordes, a replevin
suit to recover a koa bedstead given by
plaintiff to the defendant nine years
ago. Judge Robinson found for the de-
| PENDANT and he will retain possession
of the piece of furniture.
In the case of Milton Robinson VS.
the Hawaiian-Japanese Ballasting Co,
Judge Robinson found for the defend
ant, sustaining the ruling of Judge
Dickey. This was a suit for $50 alleged
to have been paid by defendant to
| Hackfeld & Co., and which it was
claimed the defendant promised to
make good.
In the case of C. K c. Rookie VS.. Syl-
vana Nobregga, the court found for the
plaintiff for the sum of $500, with costs
and attorneys fee. The suit was on
| rent.
ATTORNEYS GET BIG FEES.
1t cost John X. Summer $4,000 in at
| torneys' fees as well as five times that
amount paid to relatives to secure his
release from the guardianship suit
| brought by George A. Davis for Maria
| S. Davis. Judge Gear made the orig
| inal order placing Sumner under the
guardianship Of his sister by issuing
an injunction at the request of Davis
ton on Summers property held by the
Oahu Railway This injunction and
| the order appointing Maria Davis as
next friend" was set aside by Judge
Robinson, from which order an appeal
to the Supreme Court was taken. This
appeal was dismissed yesterday and
the suit which has been on trial before
Judge De Bolt for a week was with
drawn The original application by the
Oahu Railway Co. to enforce the option
for 100000 was also discontinued yes
terday.
In the settlement of the case the Ca
hu Railway Co. pays $4,000 for the
Earbor land held by Sumner and the
heirs at law of the old man sign a quit
claim deed to any interest they may
have had or may secure in the prop
erty The division of the money re-
ceived by Sumner from the company
was followed out in the distribution
yesterday, as already related with the
addition of the payment of attorneys
fees. Each of the heirs at law, Mrs.
Maria S. Davis, Wyllie Davis and the
three Ellis children; get $4,000, and the
Davises renounce any claim to the old
mans estate. The attorneys divide the
$4,000 as follows; George Davis, $4,000;
Henry Highton $4,000, and Humphreys,
Thompson & Watson, $500. Davis it is
understood viii divide with J. A. Ma
COON, who he called into the case after
the trial had started. The Bishop of
Panapolis still remains as trustee for
John K. Sumner.
SUPREME COURT ADJoURNS.
The Supreme Court adjourned until
November 18th yesterday afternoon aft
er concluding the hearing of number
of cases. The argument in the Hind VS.
Low case was finished in the morning
and briefs will be submitted later
The case of L. c. Ables VS.. c. ]. FalB
and the Honolulu Stock and Bond Elk
change was stricken from the calendar
upon motion of the defendant and over
the strenuous objections of George Da-
Wis. Judge Gear decided in favor of the
plaintiff and an appeal was taken by
, the defendant, but had not been per
fected. The plaintiff however put the
case on the calendar before the record
was completed and the defendant hac
1t stricken off. This is one of the cases
wherein the stenographer's notes have
been lost
In the case of Hawaiian Trust Co. VS.
Annie X. Barton ct al. the Supreme
Court ordered Henry Smith to secure
from Miss Frances Washburn a tran
script of the evidence. Davis objected
on the ground that the Supreme Cour
had no jurisdiction over Judge Little!
stenographer, but the attorneys poin
was not sustained.
The Nobregga divorce case will b.
submitted on briefs.
COURT NOTES.
Judge Robinson has issued an orde
= to take the testimony of E. w. Chris
Hansen in the case of E. w. Christian
1 sen VS.. E. B. Friel. The plaintiff i
| about to leave the Territory.
III Defendant in the case of H. c. Eastol
VS.. Robert Mcbride has asked for
dismissal of the writ of ne exeat issue
| by Judge Gear.
| The orpheum Co Ltd. yesterday file
suit against Chas. S. Desky to recove
- $500, viz: 90 Per share on $50 share