The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-05-29
SUE FOR Loss
ON BANANAS

Benny & Co. have sued the Oceanic
Steamship Company for $500 damages
for loss on a shipment of bananas
made by. the Alameda last November
Benny & Co. allege that they shipped
666 punches of bananas by the Ala
media to Garcia & Maggini, San Fran
cisco; that they were shipped in good
order and were to be delivered in good
order, perils of the sea excepted. But
that no dangers of the sea prevented.
yet by the carelessness of the defend
ant and its servants the bananas were
wetted and thereby damaged, whereby
the plaintiff sustained damage of s700.
This is said to be the first case Of
the kind ever brought in this juris-
diction.
SUIT FOR MERCHANDISE.
S. NJ. Toplitz has begun suit in the
Circuit Court against E. w. Jordan
& Co, Ltd, for s447.5O.
LEVERS & COOKE WILL APPEAL.
Levers & Cooke have moved in the
Land Court for findings of fact in the
matter of its application for a regis
tered land title for the purposes of
appeal to the Supreme Court of the
Territory. This is the matter in which
the Supreme Court of the Territory
decided that Mrs. Mary H. Atcherley
had an interest in a part of the land
for which registered title was sought.
That decision was on Mrs. Atcherley's
appeal from the decree of the Land
Court giving the title to the whole
property to Levers & Cooke. The
present is an appeal by Levers Il
Cooke from the amended decree of the
Land Court giving a part of the land
to Mrs Atcherley.
In, their notice of appeal Levers &
Cooke allege eighteen points of law on
which they appeal, the principal ones
being that previous decisions of the
Supreme Court as to this particular
land had given them the right to rely
on the title, and that Mrs. Atcherley
by several proceedings and by the
lapse of forty years was barred from
claiming title. Kinney & Marx have
been added to wilmington & Castle as
the legal forces of Levers & Cooke.
WIFE BORE HIM TWINS.
Peter Kawaha has begun suit against
his wife, Helen Halekunihi Kawaha,
for divorce. on the ground that she is
leper and has been at the Leper Set
tlement since very shortly after she
bore him twins nine years ago.
CECIL BROWN ADMINISTRATOR.
Cecil Brown was yesterday appoint
Cd let tor
of the estate of his late wife, Mary K.
Brown. In his petition he states that
the estate amounts to about $2525. 1t
consists of land on this island and in
Kona, and personal property. The
heirs are William A. Beckley Irene K.
Dickson, William A. Dickson and Cecil
Brown. The administrator is to file a
bond for $500 and an inventory within
thirty days.
DIVORCE ASKED FOR.
Mary A. Borges yesterday filed a |
libel for divorce from her husband, |
Frank Borges. She alleges that he has
failed to support her for a long time.
TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE.
Ann Eckfeldt Atwater, widow of the
terday filed her petition to be appoint
ed temporary Administrative of her
husbands estate. She states that the
income-bearing portion of the estate is
largely made up of stocks and bonds
upon which dividends and interest can
not be collected until there is some
one with authority to sign receipts and
endorse checks. Judge Lindsay ap-
pointed her temporary Administrative,
pending the probate of the will and
her appointment as executrix of the
will
THE LEE CHUCK CASE.
A stipulation was filed yesterday
setting the case of A. NJ. Brown VS..
Lee Chuck and others for hearing in
three weeks. This is one of the cases
hat has come over from the time
Brown was sheriff. Prosser appears
or the prosecution and Breckons for
he defense.
MILKMAN ACQUITTED.
D. Telles was yesterday acquitted
" a jury in Judge Robinson's court
# selling milk below standard. He
vas prosecuted by Assistant County
Attorney Milverton. He was defended ;
" Enos Vincent and ]. Lightfoot. The
license was that the milk in question
ad stood in the can all night and the 3
ream had risen. In selling the first
wo quarts in the morning practically 7
II of this cream had been taken off ,
o that when the milk inspector got
is sample it was below standard.
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