The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-03
ASSESSOR LOSES CASE.

Kui.
ASSESSOR LOSES CASE.
The Tax Appeal Court has been sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court in its
valuations from which Tax Assessor
Pratt appealed in the matter of assess
ment of taxes on property of Mary a.
Richards, the following being the par
ticulars: Land in Vineyard street, area
Fps acres; returned at $4,000 assessed
at $4,000, valued by Tax Court at
IS, 0OO Improvements or same land,
returned at $4,000, assessed at $4,000.
valued by Tax Court at $500. Castle
& Wilmington for taxpayer; Robertson
& Wilder for assessor.
QUEENS HOSPITAL APPEAL.
]. H. Fisher, Auditor OF the Terri
tory, by his attorney, E. c. Peters,
Deputy Attorney General, files a mo-
ton to dismiss the appeal of the
Queens Hospital, corporation, from
his refusal to issue a warrant for the
payment of the subsidy appropriated
for the hospital by the Legislature.
The ground is that the $4,000 appro-
propriated in the six months bill, and
the $4,000. in the eighteen months blu,
neither of them, was or is a necessary
current expense of carrying on the
government of the Territory of Ha-
wall and, or, meeting it's legal obliga-
tons, as the same are now or wrre
provided for by the then existing
laws"
GoUvEIA.s TROUBLE.
]. NJ. vivas and C. C, Biting, after.
neys for defendant. have moved to
place on the Circuit Court calendar the
appeal from Honolulu District Court
in the suit for summary possession Of
T. r. Walker, T. May and ]. osborne,
trustees of st. Clements Episcopal
church, against Gouveia. The mat
tiers involved are those on which Gou
veia sued High Sheriff Brown for 49,,
600 damages on account of unlawful
ejectment as alleged, the case being
that in which Judge Gear directed n
verdict for defendant on Tuesday last.
DISMISSED FOR DEFAULT.
There was no response for defendant
when the case of Manufacturers Shoe
Co. VS.. John F. CoIburn was called be-
fore Judge Gear. yesterday, and the de-
PENDANTS appeal from the Honolulu
District Court was dismissed. ]. Z.
ter in the day. filed a motion to reopen
the case with an affidavit showing that
he had been unavoidably detained
when the case was called.
Mr.. Kaulukou expressed himself to
an Advertiser reporter on the matter,
saying he thought such a SUMMARY
dismissal of an appeal was liable tc
work injustice.
This was an appeal to jury the
attorney said. There is no verdict en-
which to issue an execution. Which
court should issue the execution in
such case? That is a question:"
COURT NOTES.
Emma NJ. Nakuina has filed a bin
of exceptions to the verdict for de-
PENDANT found by the jury, together
with rulings and instructions of Judge
Robinson, in her damage suit for tres
pass against J. H. Schnack. Lorrin
Andrews is her attorney
In the suit of Ching Mon Kerr
against the four partners in the firm
of Kwong Tung Cheong. with P. H.
Burnette as garnishee, the garnishee
answers denying all business relations
with any of the defendants at the time
of service of summons
Judge Gear discharged Goto under a
writ of habeas corpus yesterday on the
ground previously reported. namely,
that he could not be imprisoned in de-
fault of paying a fine of $500 without
Indictment by a grand jury.
Civil cases on the calendar, from
No. 2O2 to 24S, will be called by Judge |
Gear at 10 o'clock this morning.