Redfearn v. Kuhia

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

MIZUHA, J.

On February 16, 1962, plaintiff-appellant Howard O. Redfeam filed an action to quiet title to approximately 350 acres of land located in South Kona, Hawaii. In paragraph III of his complaint, plaintiff alleged that he is the sole owner “in fee simple absolute” of the lands in question by two deeds, one from Adolph Bode and Mary Kapawai Bode, dated August 27, 1945; and the other from William C. Achi, Jr., and Rebecca K. Achi, dated January 9, 1946. In paragraph V, plaintiff alleged that he and “his predecessors in interest were in open, notorious, actual,…