Application of Sanborn

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

RICHARDSON, C.J.

This is an appeal by the State Land Surveyor (hereinafter, State Surveyor or Surveyor) from a decree and order of the land court determining the location of two lines, the beachfront title line and the “shoreline” of registered land owned by appellees Sanborn et al. (hereinafter, the Sanborns). The decree and order commanded the Surveyor to certify to the Kauai planning commission a map on which these two lines are drawn in accordance with the court’s determination.

The case arose out of the Sanborns’ attempt to obtain Kauai County approval of a…