Cha Fook v. Lau Piu

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUDD, C.J.

This case comes to us by appeal from a decree of a Circuit Judge of the First Circuit, granting an injunction against defendants’ maintaining a dam. The facts, succinctly stated, are as follows: The plaintiffs have a rice plantation at Waikele, Ewa, Island of Oahu, of about forty acres in extent, bordering on the Waianae side of the Waikele river. This land has been in the occupation of the plaintiffs for many years, and a large proportion of it has acquired by prescription the right to drainage into the Waikele river. '

The defendants have lately come into…