The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-25
CHILD GOES
To MOTHER
Judge Geo. Gear
In SoIomon's
Role.

4 Judge Gear has rendered a decision
/ in the application of Mrs. Kupau for
a writ of habeas corpus to SECURE pos
session of her three year old son, grant
ing her the custody of the child. 1t
appears that the woman's husband is
in the insane asylum and his parents
with whom they had been living, be-
came very much attached to their
! grandson, When the father was taken
! to the asylum the boys grandfather, K.
K. Kupau refused to allow the mother
| to take the child, she having removed
to her own parents home. The grand
!, father said they had no legal objection
| to the mother having her own, but they
had become very much attached to the
boy and asked the courts permission to
adopt him. AS the mother insisted upon
caring for the boy, Judge Gear allowed
the writ of habeas corpus and ordered
| the grandfather to return the boy to
his mother
| LANAI INJUNCTION STANDS.
| Judge Robinson yesterday heard ar
dissolve the injunction in the case of
| Chas. Gay VS.. Colburn and Hayselden.
| The argument was begun at 1 o'clock
| and taken up again at o'clock after
the jury had been excused. Judge Rob
| inson denied the motion holding that
sufficient ground had not been shown
| for him to set aside Judge De Bolts
| order. Judge De Bolt had already de-
MED a similar motion.
| Judge Robinson began the hearing
before a jury yesterday of the case of
| Nakuina VS.. Schnack. The trial will be
continued this morning.
| THIRTY DAYS FOR CHINESE.
zee Chew was charged with assault
and battery upon Chinese woman,
found guilty and sentenced by Judge
De Bolt to thirty days in prison.
| HUMPHREYS BUTTS IN.
Judge De Bolt made an order extend
| ing the November term of court twelve
days from December I'd, yesterday
morning and ex-Judge Humphreys took
| the occasion to "butt-in'' on behalf of
Boyd. The Boyd matter had been pass
| ed upon and was out OF the way when
the court read the order of extension,
Humphreys happened to be in the room
at the time, and objected to the extern
sion on the ground that Judge De Bolt
had no jurisdiction to make the order,
and was exceeding his powers He
stated that the objection was made on
behalf Of James H. Boyd, and the court
promptly overruled it. AS it is not like
ly that the Boyd case will be reached
for trial at this term of court, because
of the technical fight being made by
the attorneys, it is rather difficult to
see the motive of the objection to the
term extension.
TAX OFFICE CASES TODAY.
The case of the Territory of Hawaii
vs. Alec. D. Thompson and Jos. Wood
ward is set down for trial today. It i;
will be the first of the tax office cases
taken up, there having been i've indict-
ments returned against the two men.
The total amount of money involved in
the charges is small, but it is expected
that the trial will occupy several days.
Woodward and Thompson are alleged
to have collected personal tax from Chi
nese and others, for which no account
ing was made to Collector Pratt. Both
men vigorously deny the charges and
have employed several attorneys to de-
fend them.
WOOD MAKES ANSWER
An answer was filed yesterday in the
case of J. w. Bergstrom VS.. j. O. Wood
wherein the defendant denies that he
was to act as agent for Bergstrom to
buy twenty-five shares of Waialua Ag
rlcultural Co. at 5000 a share. Wood
alleges that he sold to plaintiff twenty
five shares for $4,000 for which plaintiff
gave his note with interest at s per
cent. The stock was retained as secur-
ity together with sixteen shares of the
Bergstrom Music Co. Defendant also
denies that interest was paid upon the
$4,000 note and admits that he refused
to return the note.
THE ISENBERG ESTATE.
The will of the late Otto Tsenberg was
filed yesterday. W. Pfotenhauer and
Herman Schultze are named as execu-
tors and the value of the estate is given
as S1S4, 945. The widow is given life
interest in .one-third of the property,
the remainder to go to the nine chill
dren. The estate consists of King
street property worth $4,000, insurance
| $4,000, two 1000 notes, bonds valued
at s23, 900 which have been set aside
as dover for two married daughters,
| 730 shares of Kekaha Sugar Co. stock