John Ricord
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John Ricord was a French-American lawyer and world traveler. He was involved in cases in Texas, Oregon, Hawaii, and California.
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Ladd & Co.
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Ladd & Company was an early business partnership in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Its founders were William Ladd, Peter Allen Brinsmade, and William Northey Hooper. The company was behind the first commercia
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…lawyer in the islands. The previous year a land dispute by Richard Charlton led to a British occupation known as the Paulet Affair. A related case of Ladd & Co. required lengthy arbitration. These and one other case would consume his entire time on the islands. He was described as…
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King Leopold was expected to be their investor