The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-06
CITY LAND
IN DISPUTE
Report of Receivership.
Habeas Corpus.
Probate.

Judge De Bolt yesterday began hear
ing the trial by jury of the ejectment
case of Ching Man Sing VS.. Mary A.
Richards and Theodore Richards, her
husband; Albert n. Campbell, trustee;
Levers & Cooke. Ltd; Oahu Lumber
& Building Co, Ltd, and c. K. All.
r. D. Mead and J. L. Warren for
plaintiff; Castle & Wilmington and F.
Andrade for defendants.
The jury consists of C. H. Bellina,
c. H. Clapp, Edgar L. Lewis, l..
Marks, E. S. Cunha, Sam. K. Aki, J.
NJ. Dowsett, NJ. j. Carroll, E. r. Bath.
J. c. Quinn, John A. McCandless and
w NJ. Buchanan
The suit is for 27-1O0 acre of land in
Honolulu and $4,000 for unlawful deten-
ton thereof. AS improved the prop
erty is known as Camp No. 2 of the
1900 quarantine period, situated on
Vineyard street.
NIGHT SESSION.
Judge Gear held night session yes
terday for the Parker guardianship
hearing.
Criminal cases will be called before
Judge Gear this morning, to set them
for trial or other disposition
Judge Robinson has issued a special
venire for % jurors, returnable next
Monday morning. Unfortunately the
drawing resulted in list of names
whose owners are, in a large proper
ton, either disqualified or absent from
the jurisdiction.
HABEAS CORPUS RETURN.
High Sheriff Henry yesterday filed a
return to the petition of Fukunaga for
a writ of habeas corpus. He denies
that the fishery penal law under which
Fukunaga was convicted was repealed
by the Organic Act, that the District
Magistrate of Eva had no jurisdiction
and that all the proceedings ending in
the detention of the petitioner are null
and void.
A DIFFICULT ROUNDUP.
Franz Buchholtz, receiver in the
suit of H. Hackfeld & Co. Ltd, VS..
Achi ct al, has sent his final report
to Judge Robinson, containing bill
of expenses amounting to $500.95. The
property is in South Kona- To round
up about 200 cattle and 80 horses and
mules, a fence about 5000 feet long to
make a paddock of about 400 acres was
built. There are said to be about 60
pigs and 80 donkeys roaming over a
large tract of land overgrown with
shrubs and cactus the driving of
which animals the receiver considered
would have been too expensive. He
therefore merely took care that none
of the pigs or donkeys should be
stolen.
Kinney, Mechanism & Cooper in
the same case, on behalf of the plain
tiff, moves for confirmation of the sale
of the property under the courts de-
cree. One parcel of land was sold to
Franz Buchholtz for $4,000 and another
parcel to the same purchaser for $4250.
S. E. DAMoN's ESTATE.
Gertrude Damon, executrix. has fled
an inventory of the estate of the late
s. E. Damon. The personal property
in value to $5770 and the real
estate to $4,000, a total of $31, 40.
COURT NOTES.
A general denial is filed by the de-
PENDANTS to the resmended complaint
of the firm of Yam yvo Tong against
Hoffschlaeger Co., Ltd, and High
Sheriff A. NJ Brown. Thayer &
Hemenway and Holmes & Stanley
represent the defendants
Judge De Bolt yesterday allowed the
accounts and ordered the discharge of
George E. Rugg, administrator of the
estate of Chester Merrill Rugg, de-
ceased. r. D. Mead for petitioner.
w. H. Hoogs by his attorneys,
& Clemens, answers the
of the Hawaiian Hardware
Co. Ltd, in assumpsit with a general
denial.
In the injunction suit of Isidor Rubin
stein & Co Vs. H. Hackfeld & Co., Ltd,
the defendant has filed notice of motion
to set the trial for q day certain. A
decision was given some time ago dis
the temporary injunction. The
matter relates to the Hawaiian agency
for Little Joker tobacco
Henry E. Highton. attorney for
lfbellee in the HURT divorce case, yes
terday represented before Judge Gear
that his client was insane when she
was served with the summons. It was
held by the court. under Hawaiian
decision, that divorce summons would
hold against an insane person. Time
to answer was made ten days. P. L.
Weaver and G. A Davis appeared for
Iibellant
A contest by creditors over the es-
tate of A. B. Scrimgeour. deceased, is |
pending before Judge Gear. w A. |
Whiting has filed his appearance for |
E. F. Bishop.