The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-03
PARKER WILL
NOW PROBATED
Meaning of Phrasing in Docu.
ment Construed by
Court.

After listening to considerable argu-
ment as to the intentions of Mrs. Camp
bell-Parker when she made her last
will and testament, Judge Robinson in
the Circuit Court yesterday admitted
the instrument to probate The pro-
ceedings were upon petition of Miss
Muriel Campbell, now of legal age, who
desired to be included jointly as an
executor with the Hawaiian Trust Com
pany, trustee Of the estate.
The clause of the will which the
court was asked to construe reads as
follows:
81 hereby appoint Muriel Campbell
and Mary Beatrice Campbell, my daugh-
tiers, to be the sole executors of this.
my will.
81 direct that should [ depart this
life before the two executors named in
this will, TO wit, Muriel Campbell and
Mary Beatrice Campbell, shall be of
full age and competent to act, the Ha-
Walian Trust Company, one of the trus-
tees, shall act as said executor and trus-
tee until they, the said Muriel Camp
bell and Mary Beatrice Campbell, shall
reach their majority and are qualified
to act as executors and trustees.''
1t was held by Judge Robinson that
Muriel Campbell was not able to act
as executor under the phrasing of the
will until her sister also became of
legal age and that the Hawaiian Trust
Company alone was empowered to act
in that capacity
An appeal to the Supreme Court will
be taken by the attorneys for Miss
Campbell and with the fling of bond
Of $25, 900 the Hawaiian Trust Company
viii be granted letters testamentary.
Make Fraud Charges.
Charges Of fraud are made in the
petition that has been filed by Edgar
Henriques, guardian of the minor heirs
of Margaret V. Carter, protesting
against the approval of the final ac.
counts of Jessie K. Kaae, exeeutrix
under the will
"a mockery and travesty upon JUS
tice,' is the way the petition charac.
terizes the figures in the administra-
ton of the estate as presented By the
executrix. The charge is further made
that Mrs. Kaae has paid no attention
to the best interests of her trust and
that the accounts she submits are in
accurate and not to be relied upon.
The petition will come up for hear
ing in the Circuit Court this morning
where it has been going on merrily,
for one cause or another, for the past
six years.
New Corporation.
The latest corporation to file its arti-
cles of association is the Oahu Service
Company which has been organized by
r. ii. Trent, Robert Murphy, Lewis B.
Reeves and Thomas Robinson. The
business of the corporation as specified
in the articles, will be to conduct
restaurants, lunch stands, steam laun-
dry and general merchandise and real
estate business. The capital stock is
fixed at $500 divided into fifteen shares
with an extension privilege to $4,000.
All of the capital stock has been sub
seribed to by the organizers.
Report on Foreclosure.
In the foreclosure suit of August
Dreier, Ltd. against w. W. Ahana and
Choy Seem, his wife, Richard Trent,
trustee, and Henry Holmes, Irwin
Beadle, the commissioner in the case,
has filed his bill of sale. The report
shows that property at Kuwili was sold
for $4,000 to the Oahu Railway and
Land Company and the holding at Ho-
nuakaha to &C. G. Bartlett for $1125
The sum of 11,941.S5 was left as the
net proceeds after the payment of in
cidental expenses of sale and taxation.
August Dreier, Ltd, holds a first
mortgage against that amount for
$S166.95 and Richard Trent first mort
gage for $8690.50. Foreclosure on land
can be made to meet the deficiency but
two other mortgages to Henry Holmes
and August Dreier, Ltd. cannot be sat-
isfed.
Three-Year Sentence.
Three years at hard labor was the
sentence meted out to Francisco Castro
by Judge De Bolt yesterday upon a
conviction for burglary in the second
degree. Castro is a Porto Rican who
entered the room of Miss Mary Vincent
and stole SO and some clothing.