The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-31
BRASR ESTATE
OCCUPIES DAY
No New Developments Other
DOings in Courts
Yesterday.

Judge De Bolt was engaged through
out yesterday in hearing the Brash
estate case, the main issue of which
is the collection of an $500 fire claim
award for which A. F. Judd, as
guardian of the late Susan Brash, is
endeavoring to hold ]. Alfred Magoon,
as administrator of the estate of Will
liam Barsh. deceased, responsible.
One definite ruling was given, being
the overruling of Magoon's objection
to F. E Thompson as counsel for
Judd, which was based on the fact
that Thompson was Magoon's partner
when the fire claim was prosecuted.
E. NJ. Watson, attorney for Mrs.
RobsonNand the other heirs of William
Brash, put on his case and rested.
Judd was the last witness he called.
Magoon then opened, going on the
stand himself. He announced that he
had three witnesses to call.
Judd may put on some witnesses #
he finds it desirable.
At 4 o'clock the hearing was adj
journed until 10 this morning.
Nothing particularly new came out
>
a great deal of sparring over points
raised in the pleadings that have been
exhaustively published in this paper.
JUDGMENTS OVER $500.
Judgment by consent was given by
Judge Robinson in the suit of Walter
C. Shields against All Ping for S1124.49
and costs. Similarly judgment for ST.
954.25 and costs was given in the suit
of Theo. h Davies g. Co. against All
Ping. With costs the two judgments
amount to $3103.74.
HARRY JoHNsTON'S ESTATE.
]. S. Low was appointed. on his own
petition, by Judge De Bolt as tenn
porary administrator of the estate of
Harry ]. Johnston, deceased, under
bond of $500.
1t was represented in the petition
that the customs and ship brokerage
business of decedeut imperatively re-
auired that some fit person should
take immediate charge of it. Hereto
fore the books of the business had
been kept in the office of Hind, Rolph
& Co., of which the petitioner is man
ager, and he is familiar with the bus
mess. Mention is made of enormous
sums of money involved in matters
of which Johnston had charge, lin
the way of duties claimed to be err
roneously exacted and collected"
Petitioner had been in daily attend
ance on deceased during his last. i'll
ness and believed that it was neces-
sary that the assets of the deceased,
including his brokerage business,
should be preserved and cared for
until such time as the wishes of the
widow, absent in California, might be-
ascertained and until will might be
and letters testamentary
issued thereon, or until letters of adj
might be issued to the
person qualified and entitled thereto.
CONTEMPT WIPED OUT.
Judge Robinson made an order yes
terday discharging James Armstrong
from the custody of the Sheriff under
for contempt, it having
been shown that he had obeyed the
order of the court in the injunction
suit of Oahu Railway & Land Co.
against him.
DIVORCE.
The summons in the divorce suit of
ANNE n. TNdHdOleInd against Charles
Kia Nahaolelua has been returned
from Los Angeles, Cal, as duly served
on 1ibelee. Charles is on the Coast
with a Hawaiian minstrel troupe and
the libel makes him out to be of no
account as a provident husband.
Judge De Bolt yesterday signed a |
final decree dissolving the bonds of
between Mary n. Deering |
and Augustus Deering by reason OF
the extreme cruelty of the defendant. |
The custody of their three children is
awarded to Mrs. Deering, with permits |
sion to the father to visit them dur
ing reasonable hours of the day. She /
is also awarded $50 a month perma- |
nent alimony, payable by Deering on
the third day of every month.
CASES DROPPED.
Discontinuances were filed in Judge
court by the Waiakea Mill /
Co. of its suits against Clifford Char
lock for $1,000 and Elizabeth Gehr |
with Hilo Railroad Co. garnishoe, for
$780,