The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-13
ROAD Commission
DECIDES TO APPEAL
Takes Injunction Issued by Judge
Whitney Up to Supreme
Court.
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(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
The belt road commission and the
Lord Young Engineering Company yes
terday decided to appeal to the supreme
court the injunction issued by Judge
Whitney, in the suit brought against
the commission and the company by
Contractor John Wilson. Deputy At
torney General Sutton represents the
loan fund commission and Kinney. Pros.
ser, Anderson & Marx appear for
Wilson.
Wilson, it may be remembered, made
the lowest bid for the construction of
the Heeia beach section of the belt
road, but the commission awarded the
contract to the LordYoung company.
The appeal will still further delay
actual work on the road.
Pleads Guilty.
All four men indicted by the grand
jury appeared before Judge Robinson
yesterday morning. The court sentenced
p. Perorochu, indicted for larceny, to
two years hard labor, after listening
to plea of guilty. Chung Mung was
held in $1,000 bail to answer to an as
sault charge. He will plead Wednesday,
So will A. b. Joseph, charged with bur
glary, held under $500 bail, and Chu
Moon charged with assault and battery.
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The supreme court of the Territory
may DE asked to decide the moot points
in the charter of the Rapid Transit
company. The question of what paving
shall be done between the rails of the
company is proving a vexed one The
company claims that it paved with the
original paving and that it can not be
expected to change this every time the
city and county wishes to put down
new material. If the company has to
put bitulithic between the rails it will
need to be blasted out every times re-
pairs have to be made on the tracks
-Four appeals from decisions in the
district court have been filed in Judge
Rohinsons department of the circuit
court. They are that of II. " Mort
kawa, malicious injury; Frank Lewis,
reckless driving; Chen Shu, Sabbath
breaking, and Albert A. Aranzo, keep
ing and maintaining banana trees.
Deputy United States Marshal David
*. Sherwood, will be back at his desk
in Marshal Hendry's Office this morn
ing. Sherwood has been at Kohala,
serving the papers in the condemnation
suit of the United States against the
owners of the site of the lighthouse
there.
Job Bachelor, clerk to Judge Cooper,
yesterday filed his $500 bond as com
missioner to sell property in the district
of Koolaupoko. The matter is in the
settlement of the suit of Fred Harrison
versus A. V. Gear and Addie B. Gear.
Judge Whitney yesterday awarded
Chun Sal Chong $3.50 damages against
Lau Chong, on assault and battery. The
costs were set at $2625 and Chun must
pay them also.
The case of Daniel Kamokumahakea
VS.. Kaaemoku Kakulu, is suit to set
aside deed, alleged to have been made
by one Keawemahuilani, since dead, to
parcel of land about seventy-one
acres at Kawaihapai. The plaintiff as
serts that the deed was made when
Keawemahuilani was about to die, and
that the deed was obtained by fraud.
Lorrin Andrews represented the re-
spondent and J. L. Coke represented
the complainant. The case went over
until Monday.
Judge Whitney yesterday appointed
Mrs Julia Correa guardian of Maria
S. Franks, an insane person, under 500
bond.
The supreme court yesterday sent
formal notice of its decision in the Ku-
kaiau mandamus proceedings case to
the lower court.
The will of Francisco de Costa was
admitted to probate yesterday morn
ing. j. M. Camara was named executor
unuer 5000 bond.
The accounts of G. X. All, temporary
administrator of the estate of Ching
Nun Tai, were approved yesterday. Al
charges himself with 1897 35 and ask
ed $379.16, which leaves a balance of
$l24S.19. The administrator was dis
charged.
j. Schnabel was assessed $1345.10 in
the suit brought by H. Hackfeld yes
terday. The case went by default.
Part of another day in Judge
Cooper's court yesterday was devoted
to hearing the tangled weave of the
Bannister-Lucas case. Nothing was
done and the case went over until Mon
day.
Kualii and Viii, two members of the
band of religious fanatics of which
David Ewaliko was the leader, pleaded
guilty yesterday before Judge Dole to
having performed the marriage cere-
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