The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-07
NATIVE LADIES
ASK DIG MONEY
Two Suits for $4,000 Each
Against Rapid Transit
Go. on Trial.

Wakeke Heleluhe and Kahakuhaakoi
| Kealohapauole V. Honolulu Rapid
Transit & Land Co., Ltd, damages.
was on trial before Judge De Bolt yes
terday, the jury consisting Of A V.
Peters, H. R. Maefarlane, Jr., st. c.
| Sayres, J. X Prendergast, David
Hurst, Hiram Kolomoku, Henry An
drews. Robert w. Cathcart, Thomas H.
Kennedy, NJ. F. Cunningham, r. w.
Podmore and W. E. Tyrre1l.
Plaintiffs, represented by E. A. Dou-
thitt and J. j. Dunno, are suing for
SO 900 damages each for injuries re-
ceived from the wrecking of buggy
in which they were riding at Kalihi,
by the collision of an electric car with
the vehicle in rear. on January 25, 1906.
d. L. wilmington represents the de-
PENDANT.
Madame Hele1uhe is the widow of
Queen Liliuokalani's private secretary.
Madame Kealohapauole is a cousin of
the late Princess Bernice Pauahi
Bishop and a beneficiary of her estate.
She is aged and feeble.
TAX LIEN DISPUTED.
An answer has been filed by the Ger
mania Savings & Loan Society of San
Francisco to the bill to enforce a tax
lien brought by Assessor Jas. L. Holt
against w. G. Achi and others. 1t
sets forth a plea to jurisdiction, denies
that former Assessor Pratt was justi-
fed in raising the assessment on the
property and alleges that a certain
mortgage, under foreclosure of which
the property was bought by A. Lewis,
Jr., was prior and superior to the tax
lien claimed in the bill. Smith &
Lewis are attorneys for this respond
ent.
CRUELTY CASE.
At adjournment yesterday the di-
vorce suit of Kan All Soong against
Ho Yum was still on trial before Judge
Lindsay. 1t is one of the many cases
lately brought in which extreme cruel
ty of husband to wife is charged. Gear
for libelant, Thayer for nbelee.
A GOODLY INHERITANCE.
E. r. Bishop, trustee of the estate
of James G. Hayselden, deceased, has
rendered his annual account to Decem-
Der 1, 1906, showing receipts of s2554 and
a balance of $1,000 to new account. Re-
mittances amounting to $2265.28 had
been sent to Esther A. Quigley, bene-
The inventory shows the es-
tate as valued at $50, 54S.3S. There is
at Leleo worth $4,000 leased
to Oahu Lumber & Building Co. at 5000
a year, $23,200 is invested in O. r. & |
L. Co. bonds yielding 1892 year. $4,000
Is placed in a mortgage at 8 per cent, |
$500 is in Hamoa plantation stock and |
the balance is a savings bank deposit. |
The beneficiary was the widow of |
decedent and married again.
THE LAND COURT.
Fred Wundenberg petitions for reg
stered title to land at Kaluaoopu,
Waiau, Eva, Oahu, one lot containing |
$50 acres. another 1.95 acres, the land |
being assessed for taxation at $1,000. He
title by deed of j. Alfred Ma
COON dated January s, 1907. Owners
IF adjoining lands are the Bishop es-
tate, DR.. McGrew, Tong Chong Wal
and Oahu Railway & Land Co.
COURT ITEMS
Christopher 7. Holt and Edward S.
Holt, two of the defendants in the Holt
viii construction case, by their attor-
leys. George D. Gear and George A.
Davis, have appealed from Judge Rob-
nson's decree refusing counsel fees out
# the estate to them.
Frank j. Kruger's suit against David
with Kapiolani Estate,
It'd, garnishee, has been settled out
# court Geo. A. Davis yesterday
lied a discontinuance on behalf of
'laintiff.
Alice NJ. McChesney sues Honolulu
soap Works Co., Ltd, for $3302.32 on a
Lain of Metropolitan Meat Co. Ltd,
ssigned to her for a valuable consid-
ration
Hoopii Wire by her attorney, w. c.
Achi, appeals to the Supreme Court
rom Judge De Bolts refusal of new
rial of her ejectment suit against Wal
lua Agricultural Co. ct al.
The seventeenth volume of Hawaiian
,eports is ready for distribution at the
clerks office.