Kahananui v. Maunakea

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, C.J.

At the hearing of the administrator’s petition for a decree of final distribution the plaintiffs, being a grandnephew and two grandnieces of the intestate, claimed to be entitled to share equally with the children of the decedent’s niece who survived her and had since deceased and assign error in the decree excluding them from taking. The decedent left a husband, whose share of one-half of the estate is not disputed, the question being whether the words in the statute (Sec. 2509 E. L.), “The children of any brother or sister by right of representation,”…