Haalelea v. Montgomery

delivered the decision of the Court as follows:

The plaintiff brings his action for the purpose of determining certain rights of fishery, now in dispute between him and the defendant, and also to recover damages from the defendant for having prohibited and prevented the plaintiff and his people, and others occupying certain lands under him, from taking fish on the fishing ground lying to seaward of defendant’s land, at Puuloa, on’-this island.

It appears, from the evidence presented to the Court, that the land now held by the defendant, is a portion of the large ahupuaa of “Honouliuli,” and was…