Territory of Hawaii ex rel. Sylvia v. American Security Bank

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

STAINBACK, J.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the order of the circuit judge of the first circuit relative to methods of determining the assessment of damages in an eminent-domain proceeding.

In 1942 the City and County of Honolulu, through its planning commission, planned a complete system of roadways through Kalihi Valley which included the Kalihi Valley Approach Road and Owawa street. The Kalihi Valley Approach Road was to be a limited-access highway which would run from School street up through Kalihi Valley and through a proposed tunnel in the Koolau Range to…