Maile v. Chin Wo Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUDD, C.J.

• This is an action of debt to recover rent on a written lease for a'term.

Several natives living at Waialna, Oahu, claiming to own various separate parcels of land, joined in making a lease of the-same to a number of Chinese. The rent was to be at a certain sum per acre of land, to be cultivated and used as a rice plantation. ■ Among the lessors was one Kaaiulaula, claiming some nine anres of the land described in Royal Patent Yo. 333. The lease is.dated July 7, 1890, and is for the term of twenty years. Ka-aiulaula, shortly before his death in 1894, made a…