Inter-Island Telegraph Co. v. Liliuokalani

*606OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, J.

The defendant Liliuokalani, having taken out execution on a judgment for $268.75 against the Inter-Island Telegraph Company, Ltd., in an action before the district magistrate of Honolulu, the high sheriff levied on certain instruments used in that company’s office in Honolulu and required for operating its system, namely, “a key, sounder and inker.” The Telegraph Company thereupon joined with the Waterhouse Trust Co. and Cross, mortgagees of the Telegraph Company’s property, in a bill praying for a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from…