The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-15
NE SUITS
ARE FILED
Honolulu People
Complain In
Court.
HIGH SHERIFF
BROWN IS SUED
Many New Divorce LibsIs Bishop
Estate Judgment Paid Into
Court and Refused.

| A half dozen new suits were filed in
the First Circuit Court yesterday, some
of them of an extremely interesting ma
ture.
| For four or five times has the De-
courts: first the husband then the wife
bringing the suit, but the court always
refusing to grant the application. Yes
terday John De Greaves again sued
Caroline De Greaves for divorce. alleg-
! ing adultery as heretofore, and John
Stephenson is as before named as the
correspondent. He is the man who adj
mitted living with the defendant at a
former trial, and afterwards sued De
| Greaves for the money spent for the
care of his wife.
SUES THE HIGH SHERIFF
F. Lombard has brought suit against
A NJ Brown. as high sheriff, for $4,000
damages for false arrest. He claims to
have been assaulted September 20, 1888,
while sitting in his yard, by three po-
licemen under the control of defend
ant to have been searched and locked
in cell, and kept there until IL o'clock
of the next day, when released by Dep
uty Sheriff Chillingworth. Plaintiff
claims that he committed no offense,
and no charge was made against him;
and that by reason of said arrest, the
fifth in a series Of I'VE, he suffered
damages in the sum OF $4,000; the ar
rests contributing to bring him into
public contempt, disgrace, odium, ridi-
cule and restitution. Plaintiff also al
leges a similar arrest, January 26, 1897.
when he claims TO have been dragged
on his back down whole flight of
stairs. Similar arrests we're made May
II. 1897, March Is, 1897 and June 8, 1897,
on which occasion he had been threat
ened with a revolver, mo- warrant hav-
ing been issued, and ne being always
released. Plaintiff AYERS that he made
several attempts to settle his claim for
damages amicably. and failing, he petit
toned Judge Perry to be allowed to
bring suit without costs but was re-
fused. This refusal, he claims, made
him ill. and while in bed, Wessrs. Nos
soin and Schaefer came to his room
and brought him 5000. telling him he
could take that or nothing, as damages.
That being weak. without money, and
menaced with being elected from his
room, the rent of which he could not
pay, and forced by dire necessity, he
took the 5000, whose sight proved too
much of a temptation to him, when he
had been driven TO restitution by de-
PENDANTS acts.
Plaintiff asks then that he be allow
ed to bring suit for additional damages,
on the ground that the agreement
which was Illegally and fraudulently
imposed upon him, through the great
pressure brought to bear by defend
ants agents, while he was enfeebled
by illness and in destitute circum-
stances. is void. Plaintiff alleges that
his fifth arrest was made after the
passage of the Newlands' resolution.
The petition. which is lengthy one.
was evidently prepared by plaintiff
himself without legal aid.
CHARGES FRAUD.
Frank Godfrey has sued John Kid
we'll TO regain possession of valuable
property to which defendant makes an
adverse claim of one-haIf interest.
Plaintiff claims that Ei1weil through
fraud and misrepresentation and TAX
ing advantage of her ignorance of the
English language. obtained a deed
from Emma MetcaIf Ikaika of this
property without adequate compensa-
ton; plaintiff further alleges that the
said Emma Ikaika had no authority to
make such transfer OF deed. and asks
the court to set il aside. The property
Is located in Manoa Valley. and the
half interest is said to be worth S35 O00
The property is the same as that in
volved in the suit against the Neu-
mann estate, which was dismissed a
few days ago.
EXCITEMENT SUIT.
j. o. Carter ct al. trustees of the
Bishop Estate, have sued Lula for
ejectment from property OF Wyllie
street. valued at S276.
ANOTHER DIVORCE LIBEL.
Lalela Kuaiwa VS. Kuaiwa is the
title of another divorce libel. The COM
plant alleges that they were married
September . by Rev. w y. Lono: that
since then defendant has become in
temperate and abusive. Libellant asks
the custody of a minor child. and ali
mony OF 81 a week
STILL ANOTHER.
Beke All Sing has brought suit
against Akai Sing for divorce She
alleges that she married him only upon
the request OF her parents and other
friends. but that he has never given
her money or offered to support her.
and that she has been living with her
parents. She alleges also that he was
away great deal at night. coming
back to the house to sleep daytimeS,
and she believes that he was a gam
bier. She alleges that finally her
parents moved to Punahou, and that
since then her husband has never call
ed upon her. has never furnished nor
offered any support, and apparently
has no intention of doing anything for
her, and that he is today, as she verify
believes. loafer and Vagrant in Hoo
nolulu.
IN FEDERAL COURT
Captain Merry has paid into the
United States Court the sum of S52,737,
being the amount of judgment for the
Bishop Estate fee in Pearl Harbor
lands. The draft for that amount was
signed by Paymaster Hall. and by him
given TO Captain Merry. who in turn
made il payable to the Bishop Estate
and placed il in Clerk Maling's hands
II. \. Bigelow appeared in court yes
terday morning to object to the order
of possession made by Judge Estee up
on the payment of the judgment. In
the absence of Mr.. Kinney the hearing
of the objection was postponed. Mr..
Dunno claims that the order is proper.
and that there was no requirement by