Legal Opinion
R. W. Meyer, Limited v. Territory of Hawaii
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 20, 1954No. 13545_1PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Chief Judge.
R. W. Meyer, Limited, hereafter Meyer, appeals from a decision of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii, holding that the title to forty-one fifty-fourths of a certain tract of land on the Island of Molokai is not in Meyer.
The land in question is situated in the watershed of a river flowing in a general northwesterly direction between two ranges of mountains. It is at the head of Waihanau Valley above where the river runs over a cliff. At this point the Territory has a tunnel for the intake of water which it supplies to certain towns, the water being appurtenant to…
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