The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-01-17
NEW SUITS
ARE FILED
Honolulu People
Complain In
Court.
From Wednesdays Daily.)

| 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-
greaves divorce case been in the
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 ad-
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.
+. Lombard has brought suit against
A. NJ. Brown, as high sheriff, for $1,000
damages for false arrest. He claims to
have been assaulted September 20. 1885,
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 II 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 series of five, he suffered
damages in the sum of $1,000: the ar
rests contributing to bring him into
public contempt, disgrace, odium, ridi-
Guile and restitution. Plaintiff also al
leges IA similar arrest. January rs. 1897,
when he claims to have been dragged
on his back down q whole flight of
stairs. Similar arrests We're made May
II, 1897, March 16, 1897, and June 3, 1897,
on which occasion he had been threat
cned with revolver. no warrant hav-
ing been issued, and he 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 i'll, and while in bed, Messrs. 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 $500, whose sight proved too
much of 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
2 The petition. which is u lengthy one,
was evidently prepared by plaintiff
: himself without legal aid.
CHARGES FRAUD.
Frank Godfrey has sued John Kid
) well to regain possession of valuable
property to which defendant makes an
adverse claim of one-haf interest.
Plaintiff claims that Kidwell, through
fraud and misrepresentation, and tax
. ing advantage of her ignorance of the
English language obtained a decd
from Emma Metcaf Ikaika of this
property without adequate compensa-
ton; plaintiff further alleges that tho
! said Emma Ikaika had no authority to
, make such a transfer of deed, and asks
, the court to set it aside. The property
, IS located in Manoa Valley, and the
half interest is said to be worth s35, 900.
The property is the same as that In
: volved in the suit against the Neu-
. mann estate, which was dismissed n
few days ago.
EJECTMENT SUIT.
. ]. O. Carter ct al, trustees Of the
: Bishop Estate, have sued Lula for
ejectment from property on Wyllie
: street, valued at $276.
I ANOTHER DIVORCE LIBEL.
;, Lalela Kuaiwa VS.. Kuaiwa Is the
title of another divorce libel. The COM
plant alleges that they We're married
September 2, by Rev. w. n. Lono; that
since then defendant has become in
temperate and abusive. Libellant asks
the custody of minor child, and ali
mony of "a a week.
! STILL ANOTHER.
Beke All Sing has brought sui,
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
n her money or offered to support her
. and that she has been living with her
. parents. She alleges also that he was
: away a 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 tina,
n since then her husband has never call
a ed upon her, has never furnished moi
= offered any support, and apparently
a has no intention of doing anything fol
: her. and that he is today, as she verify
believes. loafer and vagrant in Ho'
: nolulu.
!, IN FEDERAL COURT.
|. Captain Merry has paid into tbs
u United States Court the sum of So, 1S7
{ being the amount of Judgment for tbs
:, Bishop Estate fee in Pearl Harbo
l. lands. The draft for that amount wa:
e signed by Paymaster Hall, and by hin
;; given to Captain Merry, who in turf
q made ii payable to the Bishop Estate
i and placed it in Clerk Maling's hands
. II. A. Bigelow appeared in court yes
Z terday morning to object to the ordel
e of possession made by Judge Estee up
:, on the payment Of the Judgment. II
u 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
> which he Is compelled to give notice tt
> defendant.