Chater ex rel. Chater v. Carter

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

ROBERTSON, C.J.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill in equity for an accounting for certain shares of the capital stock of the Hawaiian Sugar Company, a corporation, and the dividends declared thereon since August, 1909, with interest. In the court below the parties agreed upon the facts, their stipulation, as amended in this court, reading as follows:

“Alfred S. Hartwell died in Honolulu on the 30th day of August, 1912, leaving a will, duly proved in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, Territory of Hawaii, on the 15th day of *36October, 1912. Tbe defendant…