Kiaiaina v. Kahanu

Action to recover possession of a lot of land claimed by descent. Jury waived and cause beard by tbe full Court. Answer a general denial.

The evidence was that one Kabale died in 1849 seized of tbe land, under an award of tbe Land Commission, devising *369all Ms property to Ms widow, Kaumehameha. The defendant was adopted by Kahele and Kaumebameha in 1887, as their son and heir, and was always treated by them as such. Kaumehameha died intestate in 1850 or 1860, leaving as her kindred the plaintiff Loe, sister of her father, and the plaintiff Kaawalauole, son of a brother of her father. After…