Magoon v. Hong Yee Chuck

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, C. J.

This is a statutory action to quiet the title to a piece of land containing an area of 2.72 acres, situate in Manoa, Honolulu. Trial was had before a jury which rendered a verdict wholly in favor of the defendants. The case comes to this court upon exceptions to rulings on evidence, to rulings on instructions, to the verdict and to the judgment.

The land was granted by Royal Patent (Grant) 207 to Koloalu (w). The patentee would seem to have early disappeared from the scene. There is no evidence tending to show how long she occupied the land or what she did…