County of Kauai v. Hanalei River Holdings Limited.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

NAKAYAMA, J.

I. INTRODUCTION

This ease concerns the condemnation of three parcels of privately-owned property and presents the following three issues: (1) whether two pax-cels of land must physically abut in order for a condemnee to be entitled to severance damages when one of the parcels is condemned; (2) whether blight of summons damages only begin to accrue after each condemnee has established its entitlement thereto and; (3) whether a condemnor may withdi-aw a poi-tion of its estimate of just compensation based on an updated estimate of the property’s value, after the…