Ryan v. Tanabe Corp.

Opinion of the Court by

WATANABE, J.

In this appeal, Plaintiffs-Appellants Joseph A. Ryan (Joseph) and Helen B. Ryan (Helen) (collectively, the Ryans) contend that the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (the circuit court): (1) reversibly erred in granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Tanabe Corporation (Tanabe), a Japan corporation, and Tanac Corporation (Tanac), a Hawaii corporation, (collectively, Defendants) and in ruling, as a matter of law, that the Ryans did not have an express or prescriptive easement over a portion of real property owned by Tanabe that had been…