Hawaiian Trust Co. v. Gonser

On June 21, 1951, the trustees of the estate of John H. Coney, deceased, filed a bill for instructions in the circuit court of the first judicial circuit of the Territory of Hawaii requesting that the court determine that they, the trustees, had power to sell and convey certain real property held in the trust estate and that they be authorized to sell and convey the same to the Schuman Carriage Company, Limited, upon the terms which they had previously agreed to with Schuman, the prospective purchaser. Service was made upon the respondents, the life tenant, Mrs. Elizabeth K. C. Renjes, and a…