IN RE ESTATE OF POI

Nos. 5115, 5117 and 5162.

501 P.2d 973 (1972)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of Ho POI, Deceased. COOKE TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED, an Hawaiian corporation, Administrator with the Will Annexed of the Estate of Ho Poi, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Kam Hon HO and Ronald Kwai Lung Ho, Respondents-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

October 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helen B. Ryan, Honolulu (Ryan & Ryan, Honolulu, of counsel), for appellants Kam Hon Ho, and others.

Earl S. Robinson, Honolulu (Fong, Miho, Robinson, Zimmermann & McComish, Honolulu, of counsel), for appellees, Kam Moon Kam, and others.

G. Richard Morry, Honolulu (Anthony B. Craven, Honolulu, with him on the brief, Conroy, Hamilton, Gibson, Nickelsen & Rush, Honolulu, of counsel), for Administrator C.T.A. and Receiver, First Hawaiian Bank, appellee.

Wilfred H.C. Youth, Honolulu (Lo, Youth & Ikazaki, Honolulu, of counsel), for Ellen Wong Ho, and others.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and MARUMOTO, KOBAYASHI and LEVINSON, JJ.


LEVINSON, Justice.

In a will duly executed and attested on February 28, 1935, Ho Poi made the following disposition:

I do hereby give, devise and bequeath to my lawfully begotten children, surviving me at the time of my death, share and share alike, all of my property, real, personal or mixed and wheresoever situate, of which I am possessed or to which I may be entitled at the time of my death.

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