The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-22
RATHER STRANGE
SANDER CASE
Tonque-Tied Woman Is Sued for
Loose Tongue in Market
Place.

/ A SANDER case was on trial before
Judge De Bolt yesterday. Julia Ku-
pau sues Pokii Davis, another native
woman, for damages on account of evil
reports made at the market place. l..
A. Dickey appears for plaintiff, c. w.
Ashford for defendant. The jury con-
sists of r. w. Podmore, f. j. Turner,
Z. F. Brown, Thos. H. Kennedy, Jno.
| Duncan, st. c. Sayres, Thos. Lee, Da-
vid Hurst, Jas. Arcia, Jno. Prender-
CAST, Jonathan Shaw and VIM. M.
| Graham.
| Defendant took the stand in her own
behalf. She revealed such an impedi-
ment in her speech as would indicate
| that SANDER with her mouth could not
have been an easy task. Part of the
| time her husband stood by her to aid
Interpreter Beckley in finding out
what she said. To any one distant
yard from the stand nothing but fee
BILE groaning could be caught when she
spoke. Mr.. Ashford went to the far
Their end of the courtroom and asked
her to speak her loudest and the re-
Spouse was if anything fainter than
her other efforts.
NEW TRIAL IL Is.
1t appears it was not the motion
for Judgment non obstante veredicto
which Judge De Bolt granted in each
of the damage suits of Mrs. Heleluhe
and Mrs. Kealohapauole against the
Rapid Transit Co., but motion for
a new trial. The ruling was surprise
to the attorneys for the defendants,
who say that the court denied mo-
ton for a directed verdict for defend
ant, at the trial, which was made on
precisely the same grounds as those
on which a new trial is now ordered.
BACK AND FORTH.
The case of w. w. Bruner v. Louis
Andrade passed another goal yester-
day, the plaintiff scoring, when the Su-
preme Court remanded it to Judge
Robinson for further proceedings. 1t
was a suit to recover debt among
others assigned by Hawaiian Carriage
Co., Ltd, to w. w. Bruner, the amount
being $17S.S0. In Honolulu District
Court judgment was given for plain
tiff, from which defendant appealed to
the Circuit Court, where judgment was
given for defendant. Plaintiff took the
case to the Supreme Court on writ
of error and after argument an oral
decision was rendered as above. Fl. |
G. Middleditch for plaintiff: c. F. Pc |
terson for defendant.
COSTLY LITIGATION.
Costs in the judgment against de- |
PENDANT, in the case Of David Kanu-
ha ". G. M. Cook, amount to nearly I
as much as the damages ordered to |
be recovered. The sum of the latter
is SIS and that of costs $14.25. Judge
De Bolt tried the case on appeal from
District Magistrate Whitney. The two
trials probably took time worth $3.50 in
lawyers fees and judicial officers sal
aries, not to mention the time of the
litigants and witnesses. And all for
q matter of SIS.
LILUOKALANI DEFENDANT.
Tung Yau v. Liliuokalani was on
trial without jury before Judge Lind
say yesterday. w. II. Greenwich for
plaintiff, A. G. M. Robertson for de-
1t is a case of alleged breach
Of covenant relative to lease of taro
and.
COURT ITEMS.
Thompson & Clemens for plaintiff in
the suit of j. T. Hamburg, trustee, ".
Wong Kwai move to strike defendants
answer out because not filed in time.
They also move for judgment by de-
FAULT against defendant.
c. P. Kwun Yu, Loo Wo and Young
King were appointed by Judge Lind
'ay as appraisers of the estate of Pang
Poi, deceased.
Judge Lindsay appointed M. A. Con-
;alves guardian of Maria Nunes Mar
ms, a mentally incompetent person,
lnder a bond of 800.
Jury has been waived in the case of
7. J. Byrne ". E. K. Duvauchelle.