McCandless v. Du Roi

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

ROBERTSON, C.J.

(Quarles, J., dissenting.)

The petitioner (appellant) and the contestant each owns a parcel of land situate on Liliha street in Honolulu. Their *52lands adjoin on one side. In 1904, the land court, upon the petition of the present contestant, Du Roi, entered a decree confirming his title to his lot and brought the same under the operation of the land registration act (R. L. 1915, Ch. 178). In that decree the boundary between the lands of these parties was described as follows:

“5. 276° 10' 56.1 feet along land described in L. C. Award 1127, Ap. 2, the south…