Knight v. Carter

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J.

This is a suit in equity, instituted by one Frederick S. Knight, to compel the performance of a trust and the payment of a legacy.

On April 25, 1912, a deed was executed by Annie T. K. Parker, then an unmarried woman, to Alfred W. Carter, conveying certain valuable lands and other property, comprising in the aggregate the property known as the Parker Ranch on the Island of Hawaii, upon certain trusts therein specified. The trust was to continue in force and operation until the death of the survivor of the grantor and her mother, Elizabeth J. Knight. It was…