The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-15
Petitions Are Out Among Planta-
ton Managers and the
Common People.
Remarkable Showing of Fitness for the Circuit
Bench in Cases Where Court Was Over
ruIed--FaiIures About Is Per Cent.


HILO, Nov. 11-Judge Little is out
for second term = A petition given
herewith, intended for the plantation
managers signatures was first circu-
Hated here yesterday. Four names
were signed and three others refused.
Another petition prepared for the COM
mon citizens is being circulated. It
contains extravagant statements as 10
ALA that if the position were elective
Little would be voted into the position
with an overwhelming majority. Just
where the fitness comes in may be
seen from the following record of the
cases which have been appealed from
Judge Little's decisions:
Vol. Is, p. 72-Holmes VS.. Mello; re-
versed and remanded.
Vol IA, d. 697-Haw. Trust Co. VS..
Barton; reversed and remanded.
p. 546-Thayer VS.. Lidgate; decision
reversed; decree sustained.
P. 520-Ikoda VS.. Hoo Lung; sus-
tained.
y P. 500--Hawaii Mill VS.. Andrade; re-
4 lversed and remanded.
p. 44s-Hackfeld VS. Hilo r. r. Co.;
Reversed and remanded.
p 431-Tomikawa VS.. Cana; reversed
and remanded.
p 427-Jones VS.. Peterson; sustained.
P 399-Brown VS.. Spreckels; reversed
and remanded.
P 205-In re Kapukini; reversed and
remanded.
P. 2os-Fairer VS.. Hackfeld: sus-
tained.
p. 203-Ter. VS. All Moon; exceptions
not considered because of imperfec-
tions.
P. 201-Davies & Co. VS.. Wakefield;
reversed and remanded.
P 1S9-Hakalau Plantation VS.. Ka-
huona: reversed and remanded.
P. 179-Baker VS.. Puni; reversed and
remanded.
p. 175-Tomikawa VS.. Cana; sus-
tained.
p. I09-Ter VS. All Quong; refusal
to allow exceptions reversed.
P. 6S-Rickard VS.. Rickard; sus-
tained.
Vol. ls, P. 695-vol. Stables VS.. Ha-
yashi reversed and remanded.
P. 42s-Erickson VS.. Vol. Stables; re-
versed and remanded.
P. 413-Oriemon VS.. Ter; sentence set
aside and prisoner remanded for new
sentence.
p. 4S2-Gillespie VS., McBryde; excep-
tions not considered because of inf
perfections.
P. 193-Malani VS.. AIapai; reversed
and remanded.
P. 49e-Branco VS.. Barnard; reversed
,1and remanded.
q P. 453-Lyman VS.. Tribune; reversed
K and remanded.
and remanded.
tanned.
P. 723-Paakilzi VS.. Owaanui; re-
versed ana remanded.
OF the above twenty-eight cases TAX
en- to the Supreme Court two were not
considered by that court because the
appeal papers We're defective; seven
We're sustained and twenty reversed OF
the decision set aside The percentage
of reversalS is "A per cent.
THE PLANTERS PETITION.
To the President:
The undersigned residents of the
County of East Hawaii which compos.
es the Fourth Judicial Circuit of the
Territory of Hawaii. and representing
more than four-fifths of all the taxable
property of the said county and circuit
do respectfully request your consid-
Grafton of the application of the Hon
orable Gilbert F. Little, present in
cumbent, for the re-appointment as
Circuit Juoge of the Fourth Judicial
Circuit.
His constant and arduous labors or
the bench during the past three ana
one-half years have proven to us his
thorough competency, his absolute
honesty; and the earnest, fair anc
practical discharge by him of his judi
\ cial duties have Won for him the re-
= spect confidence and esteem Of ever.
one not only in his own circuit, but
everywhere else that he has held cour
as a. substitute for other judges.
We are most interested in the ap-
pointrrent Of a clean, capable and hon