Ahia v. Cain

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PETERS, C. J.

Quo warranto proceedings were instituted in the circuit court of the first circuit to test the legality of the incumbency of Louis S. Cain as city and county engineer of the City and County of Honolulu. The respondent demurred to the writ and certain questions of law raised by the demurrer were reserved to this court, all of which may be resolved into the one question of whether the respondent was at the time of the institution of the proceedings the do jure city and county engineer of the City and County of Honolulu. The petitioners contend that he was not…