In re Taxes Estate

*150OPINION OF THE COURT BY

COKE, C. J. (Parsons, J., dissenting.)

This case comes here on appeal from a decision rendered by the tax appeal court of the Territory. The appellants, the trustees of the estate of Bernice P. Bishop, deceased, are, and for many years past have been, the owners of a tract of unoccupied and unimproved real property containing 163,383 square feet and bounded on one side by Ala Moana and on the other by the Honolulu Harbor and lying between the premises of the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company and property occupied by the United States lighthouse service, in the city…