State Ex Rel. Kobayashi v. Zimring

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

MARUMOTO, J.

This is an interlocutory appeal by Maurice Zimring and Molly Zimring, defendants, from the order of the third circuit court granting the motion of the. State of Hawaii to dismiss their counterclaims in its action to quiet title to approximately 7.9 acres of land created by the Puna volcanic eruption of 1955, mentioned in State v. Zimring, 52 Haw. 472, 479 P.2d 202 (1970).

The Zimrings made two counterclaims. In the first counterclaim, they claimed title as against the State to the newly created land by adverse possession for more than 10 years. In the second…