MATTER OF ELLIS

Nos. 81-4081, 81-4213 and 81-4318.

674 F.2d 1238 (1982)

In the Matter of: William S. ELLIS, Jr., Debtor. William S. ELLIS, Jr., Silversword Trust, etc., by Robert P. Shaw and Pauline L. Shaw, its Trustees, Upland Investments, Ltd., etc., and the Sword, Inc., etc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Lillian H. COREY, Defendant-Appellant, v. Herbert H. K. LOUI and Alberta Loui, Defendants-Appellees, v. KULALANI, LTD., etc., Additional Counterclaimant, Defendant-Appellant. Helen B. RYAN, Trustee in Bankruptcy for the Estate of William S. Ellis, Jr., Debtor; Silversword Trust, etc., by Robert P. Shaw and Pauline L. Shaw, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lillian H. COREY, Defendant-Appellant, v. Herbert H. K. LOUI and Alberta K. A. Loui, Defendants-Appellees, v. KULALANI, LTD., etc., Additional Counterclaimant, Defendant-Appellant. Lei-Anne E. GROUARD, Florence A. Ellis, Howard L. Holmes and Pamela S. Holmes, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James PROPOTNICK, U. S. Marshal for the District of Hawaii, Defendant-Appellee, and Herbert H. K. Loui and Alberta Loui, Interveners/Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1982.

Rehearings Denied May 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helen B. Ryan, Scott R. Nakagawa, Walter R. Schoettle, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Ellis.

Scott R. Nakagawa, Honolulu, Hawaii, for Kulalani, Silversword, Upland & Sword.

Phillip Deaver, Honolulu, Hawaii, argued, for defendants-appellees; Deborah Ching, Honolulu, Hawaii, on brief.

Before ALARCON, POOLE and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges.


FERGUSON, Circuit Judge:

These three consolidated appeals arise out of a complicated series of transactions, in and out of court, over the last decade. William Ellis and parties roughly aligned with him in interest, in various combinations, appeal from three dispositions adverse to their claims to an improved parcel of land in Hawaii known as the Silversword Inn. The first judgment, entered by District Judge King in consolidated adversary proceedings Nos. 72-391(3...

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