Kalaukoa v. Keawe

Opinion of the Court, by

Frear, J.

This is an appeal from the Commissioner of Private Ways and Water Eights for the District of Honolulu.

*192The question involved is the width of a private way claimed by the defendant over land belonging to the plaintiff. The way is a so-called way of necessity, the lands (covered by Boyal Patents 2597 and 2677) of the plaintiff and defendant, having formerly belonged to the same person, one Waiaha, who conveyed them at different times to the grantors of the present owners, and the only way of access to the defendant’s land being over the plaintiff’s land. It does…