Kidwell v. Godfrey

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, J.

Bill in equity with prayer that an action at law be restrained, ■that respondent be declared a-trustee for the complainant of certain land and that he be ordered to execute and deliver a deed conveying his legal title to said land to the complainant. The facts, as alleged, are as follows: The land of Wailele, situate at Manoa, Oahu, was demised by its former owner, Theophilus Metcalf, to his son Frank for life and upon his death to his lawfully begotten children. Frank Metcalf died on March 9, 1900, leaving surviving him his lawfully begotten children, Emma and…