Kailianu v. Lumai

Opinion op the Court, by

Judd, C.J.

This is an action of ejectment to recover land at Kapaia, Hanamaulu, Kauai, tried at the last term of the Circuit Court of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. The verdict was for the plaintiffs, to which the defendants excepted, as being contrary to law and the evidence and the weight of the evidence, and move for a new trial.

The entire testimony for the plaintiffs to support their claim of relationship to Naehu, the patentee, was by Nika Paniolo, their father. He says that Naehu died in 1847, leaving Keliikupololei, a daughter, who was the grandmother of his…