Ahuna v. Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

RICHARDSON, C. J.

This appeal seeks to determine whether an order filed on September 14, 1976, by Judge Kubota in the circuit court of the Third Circuit properly implemented a prior order filed on February 5, 1971 in the same case. 1 Defendant-appellant Department of Ha waiian Home Lands specifically appeals from that portion of the 1976 order directing it, inter alia, to issue a lease to plaintiff-appellee Wallace Beck of the full ten acres in Lot 92 situated in the Panaewa Hawaiian homestead area on the island of Hawaii. Appellant contends it has complied fully with…