Thomas v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

MENOR, J.

This ease involves a dispute over the ownership of certain appurtenant water rights. The principal parties in this appeal are Jennie T. Sebastian and Marvin H. Fukumitsu, appellants, and Kualoa Ranch, Limited, appellee.

The controversy has its genesis in a complaint filed in the circuit court on March 19, 1968, by Hannah Haili Thomas, George White, and Ellen White seeking to quiet title to eight parcels of land (Parcels I through VIII) situate in the City and County of Honolulu, wherein they alleged record title in themselves as well as ownership by adverse…