John Ii Estate, Ltd. v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Territory of Hawaii. Petition by the United States to condemn certain real estate at Pearl Harbor, on the Island of Oahu, in the territory and district of Hawaii, for the uses and purposes of the United States. Award of $10,000 to the owners of the land.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Territory of Hawaii. Petition by the United States to condemn certain real estate at Pearl Harbor, on the Island of Oahu, in the territory and district of Hawaii, for the uses and purposes of the United States. Award of $10,000 to the owners of the land. Answer was filed by the John Ii Estate, Limited, a Hawaiian corporation, by Charles A. Brown and John A. Magoon, directors, claiming the entire award, and) by George Ii Brown, and Francis Hyde Ii Brown, a minor, by A. A. Wilder, as guardian ad litem, claiming an interest therein.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The' plaintiff in error, the John Ii Estate, Limited, claims the whole fund in court: (1) By deed through Irene, who was the daughter of John Ii, deceased, and was named as a devisee in her father’s will, and who, claiming an estate in fee simple under the will, deeded the lands condemned to the John Ii Estate, Limited; (2) by prior adjudication in the Hawaiian courts. The defendants in error, Erancis and George,. children of Irene, denying the fee-simple estate of their mother, and admitting only a life estate in her, claim an interest in the fund by'-'…
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