Territory of Hawaii v. Kerr

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWELL, J.

This was a bill in equity brought by the "Territory to restrain the defendant from proceeding with the erection of a. seaside residence immediately in front of a lot owned by him at Waikiki on the island of Oahu, and to require him to remove a concrete wall made there, which he was filling in with coral and sand, above which the residence was to be erected, and to restrain him from further construction or filling in. The following are the averments in the bill:

“I. That L. B. Kerr, defendant, is in possession of and claims to own in fee simple a certain piece…