Haiku Plantations Ass'n v. Lono

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court determining that the road right-of-way available to the appellants under Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 7-1 was limited to ingress and egress and did not include the right to park. The paramount question presented is whether the findings of the trial court below were clearly erroneous. Finding no error, we affirm.

Appellants are the fee simple owners of the Lihue Kuleana located in the upper reaches of the Ahupuaa of Iolekaa in Windward Oahu. Ownership of the kuleana has been in the appellants’ family since the mid-nineteenth century and…