The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-27
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behind me, i dldn Y know what Uney
would do in my absence-friendly
enough to my face, but 1 wasn't sure
80 rather than have any trouble
about the matter, rather than have left
IL here and gone away from 1t not
} moving when / could get back, al
though / was satisfied in my own mind
that was losing by it, I gave him my
note for $lT5 and they raised it to
$1S5, and / gave them my note for it.
Now the only better shape they were
in was that instead of having a claim
of $53T.5G, they had note, which i
couldn t dispute, for $1s5, and then in
1906, on my return from San Fran
cisco, / paid 800 on it and / didn'
pay any more until May of this year,
when / settled the whole thing up.
Mind You, the note for $lS5 was not
given to Goo Wan Hoy, but to Judge
Humphreys, in Judge Humphreys
name, because didn't want to have
any more dealings with that man, and
it had drifted now around to Mills,
and I settled it for $75 and I was
very careful to take a release of all
claims. release of all notes, and l
mt in the word "notes' and got the
release from all notes because Of the
fact that from the time he commenced
-his suit he denied absolutely ever
having received from me any note of
any kind. and that the suit was not on
pnv note. but the suit was based on
-b;s claim Of $500: but knew he
had notes although 7 had no memo
randum of it. You will see that l am
not business man.
Suspected Trouble Would Come.
Before this matter started had got
nm intimation that Goo Wan Hoy was
going to detail his woes to the morn
a,ng pa,Iar and that they were to pe
made the basis of some charges against
me. and so I went, thinking / could
oct line on it from the bank, and 1
got n line on it from the bank, and
that is the only way that L am able
to speak now of these notes with any
assurance, because, as 1 say, until he
put in the paper about that $40 note,
he denied absolutely ever having re-
ceived any note from me or having
any notes in his possession. but got
the memorandum from the bank. Gap
plause.)
Advice Came High.
Now let us figure what ! paid.
told you that ] had done services for
him and that l had charged him.
took it out this time in charging. Now
paid him. 800 in cash, according to
his statement / paid him $50 and $25
on the $40 note, which makes 1856.
/ paid him also in cash 800 and $75,
making $3.50 in cash. Now, / had done
work for him. I gave him advice in
reference to suit early in 1902, the
Makainai notes. He came to me about
it and wanted to know whether or not
the fact that these notes were given
as the purchase price for piece of
land, and he claimed that the title was
not good, whether or not the fact that
the title was no good would be de.
Tense to the payment of the notes, and
he got my advice that it would not, and
he went to other lawyers and they tried
to defend the suit and he was knocked
out. My advice was followed by the
Supreme Court in that instance. Gap
plause.) Well, / charged him $25 for
that. daughter and applause.) Then
in March of 1908, he came to me with
a tale of woe that McChesney was go
ing to have him arrested for obtaining
goods under false pretenees, and went
over the facts with him and advised
him that there was no criminal act and
that he could not justly be arrested
and that if he was, he could easily get
off, and I charged him SIS for that.
daughter. In April of that same
year he came to me to help him Dor.
row some money. Now, didn't know
anybody who was going to lend money,
but he wanted me to go to Mckinney
here and inform him about piece of
property, house and lot in Napoo-
poo which had seen and with which
L was acquainted, and / did. | took
several trips down there and / charged
him $40 for that. Uaughter.) Now
then, he came to me later, either late
in 1904 or early in 1905, to consult me
in reference to bankrutcy proceed
ing, as to whether or not he could
collect or he would be liable if he took
money from debtors of whom he said
he was the creditor, and not the firm,
whether he would be liable also. /
went through the matter with him and
/ decided he was not and charged him
$50 for that. (Applause.) Here, for
instance, he is doing business in the
CITY Ol I1OuUluiu Ht was dipi-
rently doing business. he was down
there at the store, he was there
acting as the manager principal
man; the firm was known as Wing Wo
Co. on Hotel street, just Eva of Nun.
anu-well, apparently he was one of
the partners there but when he came
to the final outcome of it in an action
that was brought against the firm and
then against him in order to enforce
his several liabilities as a partner, it
was found out that the partner was not
the old man but was Goo Wan Hoy Jr.
This same firm did not go into bank
ruptcy, but before the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings were had he had Incorporated,
and it was the corporation that went
into bankruptcy. Now you will see by
that that paid him $3.50 in cash and
that / had rendered him services for
which I had charged 800; so that he
got $3.50 out the $500 and / got $40.
And if you deduct from that $40 the
expenses that incurred on that trip to
Hilo saying nothing of any other ex-
penses that I was put to, which was
$75, you win see that bv the whole
matter I was out just $5. Applause
and Qaughter.)
Andrews His Friend