Kunewa v. Joshua

WATANABE, Judge.

This lawsuit arises out of a dispute over whether Defendant-Appellant Isaac K. Joshua, Jr., also known as Isaac Kahele Joshua, Jr. (Defendant), exceeded his authority when he used a general power of attorney from his mother, Rose K. Joshua (Mother), to gift substantially all of Mother’s property to himself, to the exclusion of his four sisters, Gladys K. Brash (Gladys), Lorraine K. Daniel (Lorraine), Doris K. Farm (Doris), and Plaintiff-Appellee Blossom Joshua Kunewa (Plaintiff) 1 (collectively, Sisters).

Defendant appeals from the First Circuit Court’s: (1) July 14, 1989 order…