Nichols v. Wah Chong Sun

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PETERS, C. J.

This is a statutory action at law to quiet title to lands. Plaintiff by his complaint claimed title to the premises in fee simple subject to a prior subsisting mortgage and alleged the source of his title to be a sheriff’s deed to him made pursuant to a sale upon execution issued from the district court of Honolulu. It is recited in the sheriff’s deed that on March 7, 1922, the judgment of the district court upon which the execution was issued was “duly docketed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the first judicial circuit, Territory of…