The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-15
SUIT AGAINST
CLAUS SPRECKELS
HIS DAUGHTER BRINGS ACTION
TO RECOVER ALMOST A BLOCK
OF REAL ESTATE.

OF REAL ESTATE.
Mrs. Emma Claudina Spreckels Wat
son by her attorneys Humphreys &
| Watson and Robertson & Wilder, yes
terday filed in the circuit court suit
against Claus Spreckels to recover real
estate including all of the block bound
ed by Fort, Queen, Alakea and Mer-
chant streets, excepting the spaces oc-
cUpied by the Judd, Stangenwald, and
Mutual Telephone company buildings.
The plaintiff is a daughter of the de-
PENDANT and describes herself as re-
siding lat the Manor House, Lower
Kingswood near Reigate, England"
and the property she seeks to recover
was given to her by her father in 1893.
In 1897 the young woman married Wat
sen and became estranged from her
father and the resulting quarrel caused
her to deed back the property. The
husband never signed the deed, how
ever, and it is alleged to be void. The
| propertys assessed valuation is $780,,
OO0
The provision of the statute under
which she seeks to recover this Valu-
able property is section 1884, Chapter
1913 of the Civil Laws: "The real and
personal property of a woman shall,
upon her marriage, remain her Sc
parate property, free from the manage
nlent, control, debts, and obligations of
| her husband; and a married woman
may receive, receipt for, hold, manage
and dispose of property, real and per-
sonal, liz the same manner as if she
were sole Provided, however, that no
sale or mortgage of her real estate
shall be valid without the written con-
sent of her husband"
AS Mrs. Watsons husband did not
join in the deed with her to her father,
and it is alleged has never given his
written consent to the transfer, her
deed to her father is alleged to be in
valid.
The complaint says:
In Circuit Court of the First Circuit,
| Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii
Emma Claudina Spreckels Watson VS..
Claus Spreckels-Ejectmen
Declaration.
Emma Claudina Spreckels Watson,
residing at the Manor House, Lower
Kingswood, near Reigate, England, by
her attorneys, Humphreys and Watson
and Robertson and Wilder complains
of Claus Spreckels, residing at San
| Francisco, in the State of California,
for that the said Claus Spreckels has
unjustly and contrary to law and the
rights of the plaintiff taken into his
possession and converted to his own
occupation the following described real
estate situated on Fort Merchant,
Alakea and Queen streets, in the city
OF Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Territory
of Hawaii, and more particularly de-
scribed as follows, to-wit
~ All those premises situated on
Jhe East corner of Fort and Queen
streets now occupied by S. c. Wilder
& Co., set forth by metes and bounds
in Royal Patent No. 1884 (GranD to
V. X. Kamamalu, excepting so much as
was conveyed to G.. P. Judd by deed
date, Fec. 9th 1861, Of record in the
Hawaiian Registry OF Deeds in Lib. II
Fol. Ais.
CD All those premises extending be-
, tween said Merchant and Queen
streets, set forth by metes and bounds
in L. c. A. No. 159 to Kekuanaoa,
Royal Patent No. 7O4.
(3) All of those premises extending
between said Merchant and Queen
in L. c. A. No 100 to V. Kamamalu,
Royal Patent No. 696.
ca All of those premises extending
between said Merchant and Queen
streets, set forth by metes and bounds
in L. C. A. No. 161 to V. Kamamalu,
Royal Patent No. 695.
(5) All of those premises extending
between said Merchant and Queen
streets, set forth by metes and bounds
in L. c. A. No. 1862 to V. Kamamalu,
Royal Patent No. 697.
90 All of those premises situated on
the corner of said Queen and Alakea
streets set forth by metes and bounds
in L. C. A. No. 65O6 to Ahu, Royal
Patent No. 1923.
CD All of those premises situated on
the corner of said Alakea and Mer-
chant streets. set forth by metes and
bounds in L. C. A. No. 165 to V. Kama
malu, Royal Patent No. 1922.
Said premises having been conveyed
to Claus Spreckels one-half by Samuel
Parker by deed dated October goth, A.
d. 1888, of record in said Registry of
Deeds, in Lib. So, Fols. 15S-159; and
one-half by William G. Irwin by deed
GATED Feb. 18th, 1884, OF record in said
Registry in Lib. SO, Fols. 295-296. Being
the same premises conveyed to Emma
Claudina Spreckels by said Claus
Spreckels, by deed dated July 14th. A,
d. 1S93 of record in said Registry of
Deeds in Liber 141, Folio 1928.
All that tract of land situate on the
East side of Alakea street, at Honoka-
upu, in said Honolulu, bounded and de-
scribed as follows, viz:
Commencing at the west corner of
tits, the said corner being on the maui
ka side of the lane, II feet from Ala
kea street the intersection of said
lane and Alakea street bearing 70o So
(makaD and 143 2-12 feet distant from