Mossman v. Dole

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J. (Galbraith, J., dissenting.)

This is a submission without action, under the statute, on agreed facts.

*366The plaintiff brought a statutory action to quiet title October 11, 1899, in the Circuit Court of the Fourth Circuit, against the defendants, the subject of the action being the title to the Ahupuaa of Waipio, covered by Eoyal Patent 7529 and situated on the island of Hawaii. The plaintiff proposes to' show in that action that he is entitled to the title and possession of that land— or at least an undivided part thereof. The defendants are now and were…