The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-16
THE TURKS.
IN COURT
An Old Judgment
Ordered Put in
Force.

Frank Turks divorce suit against hi.
wife Estrella was started on trial before
Judge De Bolt yesterday and after tn,
hearing OF some evidence continued unit
this morning. ]. p. Ball appeared fol
the libellant and A. G.. NJ. Robertson fol
the libellee, both of the parties being
present in person. Among exhibits fieC
were two letters, each six pages oil
Turk & Lewis Office paper written II
pencil, directed by Mrs. Turk to hel
husband at Portland, Oregon She de.
scribes in these letters her plans for
starting a sporting house wherein large
profits were expected from selling beef
and wine, informing him that she had
good financial backing as well as police
protection. For yarns Hugh Rooney the
nackman was circulating, to the effect
that she was never married to Turk. she
threatened to have Rooncy's license re-
voked. Also she spoke of tacking their
marriage certificate to the door of her
house.
Other exhibits were paid checks draw,
by Mrs. Turk in favor of her husband
amounting to $3.50, also receipted bill
for furniture and furnishings from a
local firm to a well known resident.
A reply from Turk while on the Coast,
cordially approving of his wife's plans
was introduced.
Husband and wife were both on the
witness stand yesterday. Turk attend
ed court, limping with cane, as a re-
suit of being shot in the leg by his
wife two or three weeks ago
PROTRACTED TRIAL.
Capital Building Co. vs.. Henry Wa
terhouse Co., has been on trial by
jury before Judge Gear ten days now
There is talk of rebuttal being put on,
which might mean surrebuttal, and
the conclusion may yet be far away.
HEAVY JUDGMENT REVIVED.
Judge Robinson made the following
Paniani, Mary Ann Perry Maikai and
]. Alfred Magoon VS.. c. L. Hopkins and
William Larsen:
Let the prayer of the petition be
granted and let execution issue on the
judgment for the amount thereof, to-
gether with accrued interest thereon
to this date, with the costs of this
proceeding"
This suit was brought on a judg-
ment obtained on December 2, 1896, by
DAVID Dayton, administrator of the es-
tate of Narcisse Perry, deceased,
against Hopkins and Larsen in the sum
,t.t
the Judgment to the heirs and one of
them assigned her interest to Magoon.
LEGAL GUARDIAN NOW.
In the matter of the estate of Susan
Brash, an insane person, Judge Rob-
inson appointed A. F. Judd as guar
dian under bond of $450O. This is the
matter in which the Supreme Court
diars had acted without legal authority
covering period of many years.
ORDER REFUSED.
In the divorce case of Silva VS.. Silva,
Judge Robinson denied the motion of
Domingo Correia, for an order to w.
E. Fisher, receiver, to pay over SS5
as collected without authority by the
mer receiver, according to the allega-
tions of the mover.
BANK BEYOND REACH.
Judge Gear dismissed the order to
show cause, directed to the Yokohama
Specie Bank in the matter of the
Manekichi estate. The ground taken
is that the court has no jurisdiction
of assets of the estate in the Empire
of Japan. In the petition the respond
ent was described as "of Honolulu and
Yokohama" e. A. Douthitt appeared
for II, Mkt, administrator, who petit
toned for the order to make the bank
pay over 1926. M. Kishi, manager Of
the Honolulu branch of the Yokohama
Specie Bank, responded in person.
BECKY'S GUARDIANSHIP.
A remittitur from the Supreme Court
to the First Circuit Court has been
made of the matter of the estate and
guardianship of Rebecca Panee Hume
lIu, a spendthrift. The appellatl court
in this case held that ]. Alfred Magoon
could pay himself an attorneys fee for
defending his own case as guardian,
but that $1,000 allowed him by Judge
De Bolt was excessive.
ON COURT FILES.
Oahu Railway & Land Co.. by it's
attorneys. Hatch & Ballou, demur to
the offset and counter claim of Waia-
lua Agricultural Co., on the ground
that it appears in said answer that
the claim therein set up is for an un-
liquidated amount and therefore can
not under the law be pleaded as an
offset and counter claim"
1t is stipulated in the injunction suit
OF Excelsior Lodge, I. o. o. F., against
Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co,
that complainant have until and in
Guiding February % within which to
file it's brief on demurrer
Luke Mong War by his attorney, f,
NJ. Watson, answers by general denial
the complaint in assumpsit of Lee Let