Spencer v. McStocker

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

R. D. SILLIMAN, ESQ.

This is an appeal from a pro forma decree of the Eirst Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eirst Circuit, sustaining á demurrer to the applicant’s petition for an alternative writ of mandamus and dismissing the alternative writ issued thereon between September 22, 1898. The Petition shows that Lincoln D. Spencer is a native bom citizen of the Republic of Hawaii; that on July 2, 1898, he became sole owner of the'ship “Star of Italy” by purchase; that on the same day a certificate of temporary Hawaiian Registry of said vessel was issued by the Hawaiian…