The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-20
ADELLA MAY
KEEP THE S37
Her Soldier Victim Has Gone
to the WiIds of
Alaska.

A nolle prosequi was entered in
Judge Lindsay's court yesterday in the
case of the Territory VS.. Ade1la Lazaro
Adel1a was charged with robbing q
soldier of s37 in Iwilei. But the soldier
has left Iwilei and also Honolulu, and
has gone to the wilds of Alaska, so his
testimony was not available.
A nolle prosequi was also entered in
the case of the Territory VS.. L. Pal,
charged with selling unwholesome fish.
But the man who bought the fish can
not now be found.
AN OLD ACCOUNT.
Judge De Bolt was yesterday en-
gagged a good part of the day in hear
ing the case of Henry May & Co., Ltd,
VS.. w. c. Peacock. The subject mat
ter of the suit is an old account for
groceries supplied to the old Moana
Hotel Co. NJ. F. Prosser appears for
the plaintiff and c. w. Ashford for the
defendant.
WANT LAND TITLE.
Annie Kaninui Hart and James r.
Love have applied for registered title
King and Kekaulike streets. in the
Land Registration Court.
TWO SMALL ESTATES.
David Dayton, as administrator of
the estate of Hugh Macmillan, yester-
day filed his first and final accounts.
He charges himself with $f80.35 and
asks to be credited with the same
He also made his final ac-
count in the estate of James McCready,
in which he received $2O6.s5 and dis
bursed the same amount.
CASE SETTLED.
In Judge De Bolts court yesterday
the old suit of Leong Pung ct al. vs..
Leong Lau ct al. was stricken from
the files. The parties are two sets of
Chinese farmers at Waikiki. The
plaintiffs claim that something like two
years ago the defendants with force
and arms tore down the dam by which
they forced water into their irrigating
bitches and did them about two thou>
have been several changes of lawyers
in the case. and it was announced yes
terday that the case had been settled.
JURORS EXCUSED.
The jurors in Judge Lindsay's court
were yesterday excused until Monday
Morning at 10 O'clock.
GRAND JURY.
The grand jury met yesterday morn
ing expecting to take up the Standard
Oil fire investigation The authorities
we're not ready, however, and, there be-
ing no other matters, the grand jury
adjourned until next Wednesday at 10
o'clock.
DIRECTED VERDICT.
In the ejectment proceeding of Kua-
moo All Tim VS.. Solomon Mahelona and
Luka Halolou, which had been on trial
before Judge Robinson and jury for
hree days, Judge Robinson yesterday
directed a verdict for the defendants
IN the ground that they had been in
diverse possession of the premises for |
more than twenty years.
CASE REoPENED.
Judge LIE 6OlL yesterday Set dSluS the
Judgment and default in the case of All /
10y VS. Sylvanus Nobrega, and allow |
d the case to be reopened and put it
N Judge Lindsay's calendar.
WIDOW GETS ALL.
In the matter of the probate of the |
will of the late Samuel Lowden, the
estimony of the widow, who is the sole
xecutrix of the will. the sole benefit
iary under it, and the sole heir at law
f her deceased husband, was taken.
rhe deceased died in Santa Cruz, June
!, 1907, aged 62 years. He left ten
hares of Eva and ten shares of the
honolulu Plantation stock in this Ter
itory.
SUPREME COURT.
In the Supreme Court yesterday the
ase of the Lahaina Agricultural Co.
gainst A. Poaha ct al. was argued and
unlimited. The court then adjourned
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