IN RE CHINN'S ESTATE

No. 4120.

359 P.2d 932 (1961)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Clarence Cheong CHINN, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

February 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Y. Char, Honolulu, for appellant.

Richard D. Welsh, Honolulu, for respondent.

Wong, Lau & Lo, Richard C. Lo, Honolulu, for Cooke Trust Co., Ltd., Administrator with the will annexed.

Before TSUKIYAMA, C. J., and CASSIDY, WIRTZ, and LEWIS, JJ., and HAWKINS, Circuit Judge assigned by Reason of Vacancy.


LEWIS, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying a motion to dismiss an appeal to the circuit court by contestants, whose objections to the admission to probate of the September 17, 1956 will of deceased were disallowed, and the probate contest ordered dismissed, by a circuit judge sitting at chambers, the Honorable W. Z. Fairbanks.

The contestants, appellees here, are Yau Lee Chinn, an adult son of decedent, and Amy Farias, next friend...

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