Von Holt v. Williamson

OPINION OP THE JUSTICES BY

ROBERTSON, C.J.

(Quarles, J., dissenting.)

This is a controversy- submitted upon agreed facts which involves the construction of the will of Godfrey *202Rhodes, late of Honolulu, deceásed. The material parts of the instrument are as follows:

“First: I give, devise and bequeath all of my real and personal estate both in California and in the Hawaiian Islands, to my nephew’, Cecil Brown, upon the trusts, and to and for the uses and intents following, and none other, that is to say: Upon trust to stand seized of the real property and to stand possessed of the personal property…