Souza v. Sociedade De Sao Martinho Beneficente De Hawaii

OPINION OP THE COURT BT

EDINGS, J.

The agreed case submitted to this court shows inter alios that one Manuel Caetano Baptista, now deceased, married the mother of the plaintiffs when they were both infants of tender age; that he was a member of the defendant society in good standing when he died; that on April 25, 1917, a short time before his death, he filed in the circuit court of the first circuit of this Territory his petition praying that the adoption of the plaintiffs be authorized, legalized and declared valid. They were at this time of the ages of forty-two and thirty-six years…