Petran v. Allencastre

Opinion of the Court by

ACOBA, J.

We hold that publicly recorded conveyances evidencing the existence of a cotenancy in land may render a cotenant’s belief that he or she had no reason to suspect the cotenan-cy’s existence not objectively reasonable under the rule set forth in City and County of Honolulu v. Bennett, 57 Haw. 195, 552 P.2d 1380 (1976). Plaintiff-Appellee Jolenta Al-lencastre Petran (Plaintiff) maintained that as to the land in issue she had no reason to suspect a cotenancy existed with Defendants-Appellants Dennis L. Kaluna and Goldie L. Naone (Naone) (collectively, Defendants)…