Meleaka How On v. Amoe Ah Ho

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

WILDER, J.

This is an action of ejectment in which plaintiffs-claimed a piece of land in Lahaina and damages for its detention. Defendants filed a general denial. The jury returned a verdict in the following form: “We, the jury in the above entitled ■cause, find for the plaintiff in the sum of one dollar damages.” Thereafter defendants filed a motion for a new trial on the following grounds, co wit:

1. That said verdict does not conform and respond to the issues of fact submitted by the pleadings in said case, but, to the contrary, fails to comprehend all of the issues…