Kam Chin Chun Ming v. Kam Hee Ho

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

LEWIS, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment which, after trial, dismissed a petition in an action seeking to set aside a family settlement and the order of the probate court based thereon.

Ho Poi, hereinafter referred to as decedent, in 1890 at the age of 27 went from Hawaii to the village in China from which he had emigrated, returning to Hawaii in 1891 with a wife, Chang Shee. Under the pleadings it is undisputed that Chang ghee was the mother, and Ho Poi the father, of the six petitioners-appellants and the respondent-appellee Earn Hee Ho. In the court below these…