Kaleialii v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii. Action by Mary Kaleialii and' others against Henrietta Sullivan and ■others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error. This is an action brought to quiet title to certain real estate in Hawaii, all the parties claiming title from a common source, a deed, from Alexander Adams, Jr., dated September 15, 1858, and running to the daughters of the grantor, Peke and Maria.
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In Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii. Action by Mary Kaleialii and' others against Henrietta Sullivan and ■others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error. This is an action brought to quiet title to certain real estate in Hawaii, all the parties claiming title from a common source, a deed, from Alexander Adams, Jr., dated September 15, 1858, and running to the daughters of the grantor, Peke and Maria. The deed was in the Hawaiian language, but a translation of the material parts is as follows: “This deed is an absolute conveyance of land, made this 15th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The controlling question m the litigation is the construction of the deed from Alexander Adams, Jr., to his daughters, Peke and Maria. The plaintiffs in error contend that the proper construction is that Adams created in each one of his daughters an estate for the life of each one of them, with a remainder over to their children, if any such children should survive the mother or mothers. Defendants in error contend that the deed gave Peke and Maria each a fee simple in half of the land, and that Peke’s interest passed to Maria, and that the fee simple…
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