Thurston v. Allen
Hawaii Supreme Court
Submission of Controversy, under Section 1140, Civil Code. Submission. The undersigned, Lorrin A. Thurston and Caroline J. Robinson, Executors of the Will of J. N. Robinson, deceased, and Caroline J. Robinson, Mark P. Robinson, Mary E. Foster, Victoria Ward, Bathsheba M. Allen and Samuel C. Allen, her husband, Matilda Foster and W. E. Foster, her husband, Annie Jaeger and Albert Jaeger, her husband, Lucy McWayne and Albert McWayne, her husband, and S. C. Allen and M. P.…
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Submission of Controversy, under Section 1140, Civil Code. Submission. The undersigned, Lorrin A. Thurston and Caroline J. Robinson, Executors of the Will of J. N. Robinson, deceased, and Caroline J. Robinson, Mark P. Robinson, Mary E. Foster, Victoria Ward, Bathsheba M. Allen and Samuel C. Allen, her husband, Matilda Foster and W. E. Foster, her husband, Annie Jaeger and Albert Jaeger, her husband, Lucy McWayne and Albert McWayne, her husband, and S. C. Allen and M. P. Robinson, Executors of the Will of James Robinson, deceased, respectfully represent that they are parties to a question in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court, by
Judd, C.J.
We shall first discuss the first and fourth paragraphs of the will in question, and much of the reasoning on these paragraphs will apply to the seventh paragraph. Eliminating therefrom *396what is unessential to be discussed here, the devises of the land (after the life estate of the testator’s -widow in the land in the first paragraph) are to Mark P. Robinson and John N. Robinson for the term of their natural lives, to share and share alike, and after the decease of Mark one-half to his heirs, and after the decease of John one-half to his heirs. Condensed still…
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