Campbell v. Kawananakoa

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

BANKS, J.

On the 31st day of December, 1931, the then trustees of the trust estate created by the last will and testament of James Campbell, now deceased, demised by two separate leases for a term of fifty years as and from January 1,1929, certain sugar lands belonging to the trust estate to the Ewa Plantation Company and the Oahu Sugar Company respectively. It being doubtful whether the trust would, under the will of the testator providing for its termination, survive the leases, the trustees brought the instant bill in equity for the purpose of obtaining a judicial…