Lowrey v. Territory of Hawaii

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, C.J.

The plaintiffs claim $382.50 as attorneys’ commissions as in actions of assumpsit, and $31 for other attorneys’ fees named in the statute upon a judgment in their favor for $15,000 ordered by the United States supreme court reversing the judgment of this court in an action against the Territory to recover that sum for breach of an agreement made with the American Board of Foreign Missions by the government of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1849 that in carrying on the Lahainaluna school it would not “teach or allow to be taught any religious tenet or doctrine…