Smith v. Hamakua Mill Co.

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PREAR, C.J.

Ejectment for an undivided o-ne-fourtb of tbe abupuaa of Kobolalele, situated at Hamakua, Hawaii, containing about 6,330 *717acres, covered by Royal Patent 4,527, L. C. A. 26R, issued to Kailakanoa.

Upon the death of Kailakanoa, the land descended to her half-brother Huakini. Upon the latter’s death, in 1860, one-half of the land descended to his wife Hoomana and afterwards passed by various conveyances to- the defendant. About this half there is no dispute. The other half descended, upon Huakini’s death, either to his half-brother P. Nahaolelua, under whom the…