Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-18
MILVERTON HANDS
HOT ONE TO Mr..
CATHCART
But 1t Happens to Be Another
Man Than the Boss Of the
< Deputy County Atty.

SSFAAy
Deputy City and County Attorney
Milvertoh last night, at the board oil
supervisors meeting handed a gentle
man named Cathcart bunch of hot
shot, right out of the oven. Only
and those who like to see a scrap in
the office of the city and county at
torney, will be disappointed-the
Cathcart happened to be Robert Will
lam, not John. The above mentioned
hot shot was fired in an opinion
banded down in answer to a communi
cation sent in to the board by R. w
Cathcart, demanding the sum oil
seYenty-fiYe dollars as payment for
work done while chief clerk of the
roa department from January Is
1911, to January 81, 1911, which, says
Mr. Cathcart. he has been doing with
out ever since the former board heart
lessly fired him without warning
Says Mr.. Milverton: ~ Ii. -
I'm the first place, the statement oil
the claimant requires some correction
road department from January Is,
that the services of the claimant Were
dispensed with by the committee on
roads, bridges, parks and public i'm.
proyements. Notwithstanding his re
moval, Mr. Cathcart would not stay
put OUT but continued to act as chief
clerk under John Wilson, until the ap
pointment of e. c. Wilder as his sue.
cessor. Between the 18th of Febrll-
airy, 1911, and the Goth of February,
1911, Mr.. Cathcart presented a claim
to the board Of supervisors for the
sum of SIS, covering the period OF
time from February LIST, 1911, to Feb
ruary 18th, 1911. This claim, the com.
mittee on roads first refused to allow.
The action of this committee called
forth from Mr.. Cathcart communi.
cation February 20. In this com
mnnication, Mr.. Cathcart, among other
things, said: +E.$ g..s .'. "
81 desire to state that whatever
decision you may arrive at shall be
accepted by me as conclusive, final
and binding, and will not appeal there
from. + have thus placed my claim
in your hands, feeling secure that
will lobtain equity from you ~
Two things will be. noticed from
this communication; first, that Mr..
Cathcart made claim at that time only
for one-half month to February 10,
1911 and second, that he stated en-
phatieally,. that whatever decision the
board might arrive at would be &C
cepted! by. him as conclusive, final
and binding. .. IT, u H.. 81
The committee on ways and means
March 8, reported that the request
was recommended it be granted. On
the} same day, March g, 1911, there
was filed in the office of the city and
county clerk salary demand BY
Robert w. Cathcart, claiming com
pensation from February I, to Feb
ruary Is, 1911, fifteen days, at the
rate of $50 per month. The amount
claimed in that salary demand. SIS
was receipted for by Mr.. Cathcart..
The facts stated by me SO far have
bee ngathered from the records of the
various departments of the city and
county. further learn that Mr.
Cathcart never reported for duty tc
the new road overseer, Mr.. Wilder
and did not perform or offer to per
form any services under the new ap
pointee.
$50 far as the official action of the
board was concerned, Mr.. Cathcart's
employment terminated on the 31st
day of January, 1911, and whatever
services he performed in the month
of February were contrary to the of
fetal expressed will of the supervis
ors. His claim then for services fol
the first half of February, 1911, was
to say the least, doubtful one. Ordi
narily, a person having a doubtfu
claim, who makes a demand for what
he then considers he is legally and
justly entitled to, and couples thai
demand with a statement that what
Fever action is taken will be deemed
by him conclusive, final and binding
is more than satisfied, when the de
mand he makes is allowed in full.
Not so Mr. Robert William Cath
cart, the claimant in this case. He
received all he asked for-he remain
ed somnolent and acQuiescent fol
nearly two years in the matter, and
now comes forward making further
claim for compensation based upon
what is termed, legal Just 'equit
able and moral grounds.
Upon none of these grounds car
he recover. A claim that is utterly
devoid of any of these features, that
is without a. scintilla of consistency
and that has no standing in any sys
tenn of Jurisprudence, / think should
be rejected by the board of super
visOrS.
FRED. w. MILVERTON,
First Deputy City and County At
torney."