Keanu v. Kaohi

OPINION OF THE COURT BT

FREAR, C.J.

• Ejectment for apanas 1 and 2, L. C. A. 2,572. Trial by the court, jury waived, on agreed facts. Judgment for plaintiff. Exceptions by defendants. •

The only question presented for our determination is whether under the will of one Manuel Svlva, admitted to probate in 1874, his widow, Ohina, took a fee simple or only a life'estate. The plaintiff, daughter of the testator, claims on the theory that the widow, now dead, took only a life estate. The- defendants claim under the widow by descent on the theory that she took a fee simple.

The devise in question reads…