The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-27


guilty to guilty of assault with deadly
weapon and was sentenced by Judge
Lindsay to six months Imprisonment
and payment of costs. He was indict-
ed for wounding All Kui with hoe
THE DAMAGE SUIT.
Bunhichi's $4,000 damage suit
against the Rapid Transit Co. will take
the rest of this week before Judge
Robinson and a jury. Five witnesses
for the plaintiff have been examined,
counting Chas. G. Bartlett whose cross
examination is still on, and seven more
on that side are to be called. Mr..
Bartlett was a passenger ON the Waia-
lac car who saw the accident when
plaintiff s nine-yearold son was killed.
LARGE FEE ALLOWED.
Judge Lindsay allowed J. J. Dunno
attorney for Abigail W Kawananakoa,
a fee of $1,000 for services to date in
the Campbell will case, ordering the
trustees of the estate to pay it.
BARETE ESTATE CONTEST.
Judge De Bolt, on the motion of Mrs.
Maria tarete, appointed j. Lightfoot
as guardian ad item of Theoff Lutello.
Manoel and Jose Barete, minors, with
relation to the suit of Maria Barete
VS.. VIM. Savidge, trustee, and others.
In an answer of the minors filed by
their guardian it is set forth that, in
the case of Soares VS.. Guerrero, the
sum of $132l.0S was ordered paid to
Maria Barete as dover by VIM. Savidge,
trustee, and she was not entitled to
the said sum but only to the income
thereof. 1t is prayed that, in case
the court determine that Maria Barete
Is entitled to dover, the premises be
sold and out of the proceeds she be
allowed her dover and that, in the al
loWance, account may be taken of the
moneys overpaid to her.
WARM DIVORCE ANSWER.
Magoon & Lightfoot for libelee have
filed an answer and cross liEel to the
divorce suit of Maria Jose Faria VS..
Francisco Antonio Faria. It charges
her with being frequently intoxicated,
with giving luaus to which lewd and
dissolute persons are invited, with neg
lect OF their child, etc. The specifica-
lions of the woman s alleged miscon-
duet are of warm nature. The at
torneys for the husband also move for
the trial of the case without delay.
MOTION TO QUASH.
Briefs have been filed in the Circuit
Court by Deputy Attorney General
Fleming for the Territory and George
ID. Gear for the defendants in the case
of Territory of Hawaii vs. Lau Tung
Piu and others. This is on defendants
motion to quash the indictment be-
cause it is not signed by the county
attorney, and the county attorney did
not appear, and the indictment was
signed by a second deputy attorney
general, and at the time the grand jury
which found the Indictment was en-
paneled. April ., 1906, the January
term of the Circuit Court was being
held. Judge Lindsay has overruled
the motion to quash and defendants
must stand their trial.
COURT ITEMS.
Judge De Bolt admitted the will of
Mrs kekapu to probate, appointing
kaopumamona as executor under a |
bond of 800. He appointed P Silva,
F. ~. Beckley and C. A. K. Hopkins
as appraisers of the estate.
In the suit of Tax Assessor Holt vs. |
j. NJ. Monsarrat for $29676, on appeal |
from Honolulu District Court, Judg-
ment is confessed and entered.
Trustees of Oahu College by their |
treasurer, P. G.. Jones, file consent in |
the Land Court that a certain mortgage |
made by Levers & Cooke, Ltd, be |
registered with title
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