The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-06
PARKER RANCH
LITIGATION PHASES

The Parker Ranch litigation is still as
unsettled as heretofore. and neither
Judge Gear nor Judge Matthewman
seems to have yet formed definite opin-
ions as to the rights of the contending
parties.
Mr.. Henry E. Highton, on Saturday
last, moved to have the Injunction dis
solved and the receiver removed, that
Mr. A w. Carter had succeeded ex
parte in obtaining on June 18th, 1904
The chief points in dispute seem to
be: Colonel Samuel Parker maintains,
that he is the surviving partner of the
partnership between himself and John
P. Parker, who by his will directed that
the partnership should be continued
by his heir, John P. Parker the younger,
who died under age. but leaving a
daughter who according to the same
will should take his place.
As such surviving partner Colonel
Parker Claims that he has sole con-
troll of the business, and, therefore, the
right to remove Mr.. A. w. Carter from
the management of it.
On the other hand, Mr. A w Car
ter says, that, as the guardian and
trustee of the heir of John P. Parker,
he has equal authority with Colonel
Samuel Parker; and besides this, that
Colonel Parker, when he made Mr.. A.
w. Carter manager OF the Parker
Ranch, Invested himself of all further
control of the place or business and
gave whatever authority he had to Mr..
A. w. Carter, without reserving the
right to resume or take away from Mr..
Carter the authority he gave HIM.
Colonel Parker denies this claim of
Mr.. A. w. Carter, and alleges, that he
has not, according to law, the power
TO depute his authority as surviving
partner to Mr.. A. w Carter or anyone
else; and that he never attempted-as
Mr.. Carter claims he did-to depute his
authority to Mr.. Carter. He then
charges Mr.. Carter with nismanaging
the business and extending large sums
of money uselessly and extravagantly
and contrary to the interests of both
his ward and Colonel Parker.
In this way, by charge and counter
accusation, the quarrel develops, and,
as the property is large and the his
tory of the affair a lengthy one, the
details are so numerous that the litiga-
ton is already taking most of the time
of our leading counsel.
ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE.
Once more the effort of Annie Holt
Kentwell to have the marriage of Albert
Christian and a Miss Holt, annulled,
has been brought out in the Circuit
Court for consideration. A motion was
filed yesterday to set the case for con-
clusion of the hearing that was partly
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case on the calendar for July II.
KAULUKOU GUARDIAN.
j. L. Kaulukou, guardian of ]. Lot
KaIani Kaulukou, has petitioned the
Circuit Court for his discharge as such
officer after his accounts have been ex-
amined. The ward became of age on
June II, 1904.
COURT NOTES.
Wing Wo Lung Co. We're declared
bankrupts in the Federal Court yester-
day. This is an involuntary case and
no schedule of assets has been shown.
This will be filed in about ten days.
Judge Dole acceded to the request of
the Henry Waterhouse Trust Co. to be
released as trustee for the Herrick Car
riage Co.
The reports of the receiver in the
David Lawrence bankruptcy matter
have been audited by the Referee in
Bankruptcy and found correct.
Argument on a motion to transfer
case to Judge Robinson from Judge
Gears court was heard by the latter
yesterday in the matter of the petit
ton of D. L. Colburn to have Henry
Smith appointed trustee of the estate
of r. w Holt. The argument was
based on the ground that Judge Robin |
son had jurisdiction. The court took
the matter under advisement and the
case was continued until this morning.
In the divorce proceeding of Mage
VS.. Mage, the court gave permission
to both parties to have commissions
issued for taking testimony in Los An
geles and San Francisco the interroga- |
tories to be filed in court.