Kealoha v. Castle

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL,, J.

The plaintiffs brought a bill in equity in order to compel the respondent as trustee under the will of Joshua E. Williams to pay to them such share of the income of the testator’s estate as by the terms of the testator’s will would be payable to the children of a deceased child of the testator.

The plaintiffs are illegitimate children of a son of the testator born while their father was living in lawful wedlock with his wife, but after the death of the wife their father and mother intermarried and thereby, as the plaintiffs claim, they were made legitimate…