The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-26
HEAVY TRIBUTE
PAID LAWYERS
SouabbIes Over Control OF a
Spendthrift's Estate
Cost $1,000.

J. Alfred Magoon. guardian Of kalua
Kapukini, a spendthrift filed his ac-
count up to February IS, 1907, cover
ing a period from August 90, 1901. Re
ceipts are s2749.1O and payments
s466s. Sc, leaving the estate indebted to
the guardian in the sum Of $1919.46.
Judge Lindsay approved the accounts
and, on the petition of the ward her
self. granted his discharge.
In the payments out of income an
immense proportion of the spend
thrills" estate has been dissipated for
her in law expenses, as witness the
following items:
June 20, 1901. To fee J. Alfred Ma
COON for resisting application for dis
charge of guardian in Circuit and Su-
preme Court brought by Humphreys &
Gear. decided May 81, 1899. $3.50. The
amount of this charge made two years
after the event is entered in pencil.
July 10, 1901. To masters fee on ac-
count, $50.
Sept. %. 1901. To witness fees, SIS;
80, to subpoena, 81; oct. . to witness
fees, $3.50; 4, to transcript of evidence,
So. 76; s, to costs, ETC., $13; II, to costs
appeal guardianship, $50; total, $11o.86.
Jan. Il, 1902. To balance transcript
re guardianship. $3.50.
June IA. To car fare ]. Lightfoot
searching for KaIua to appear in court,
$015.
July 2. To fee J. Alfred Magoon for
resisting application for discharge of
guardian in Circuit and Supreme Court
brought by Thos. Fitch, decided in su-
preme Court May 7, '02, and on motion
for rehearing July 9, 'O2, $3.50. This
struggle to retain hold of the spend
thrift, it will be seen, IS deemed worth
$100 more than the other. Probably
Tom Fitch gave the guardian a harder
run for the money than had Hum
phreys & Gear. Again the amount, not
the item, is entered in pencil.
Feb. 4, 1903 To BarenaDa, services
attorney in District Court, Kaneohe,
IS.
April 4. To costs in re guardianship,
$50.
May I To paid Fitch for writ of
error, $25.
The total income spent in litigation
is S654.21 but that is not all. Charged
~. a.
October IA, 1901. To cash paid Gear
& Humphreys in full of fee, $500.
July Is, 1902. To cash paid Thos.
Fitch, $4,000.
July u, 1904. To cash paid Thos
Fitch acc. fee, $3.50.
Aug. ?. To cash paid Thos. Fitch
in full, $3.50.
This is $14S65O paid to lawyers out
of principal, which added to the $65421
for litigation out of income makes a
grand total of $2O9O71, or more than
the amount of the spendthrift's alleg-
ed Indebtedness to her guardian, which
has been absolutely thrown away so
far as the poor woman is concerned.
Mr.. Magoon charges his ward, also,
with $327.39 as interest on overdrafts,
computed at the rate of eight per cent.
Still, the ward says in her petition
that she has examined the accounts
and approved them. ]. Alfred Magoon
was appointed her guardian by Judge
Alfred w. Carter on February 20. 1894,
and she gives the following reasons
for asking that the guardianship be
now terminated, as has been done:
THAT petitioner is now thirty-two
years Of age and upwards, and is mar
ried and desires to make certain pro-
visions with reference to her property
which she cannot make while the guar
continues, and that the con-
templated provision will, as petitioner
believes, be greatly to her advantage
and will increase petitioners income
from her property.
That petitioner has for some months
last past been working steadily in Ho-
nolulu for wages. and through manual
labor has learned the value of money!
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