Foster v. Kaneohe Ranch Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

E. P. DOLE, ESQ.

Tbis is a bill in equity brought by Mary E. Foster and others, members of a native hui, to set aside and declare void a certain lease of about five thousand acres of land for the term of twenty-five years, purporting to have been made by the hui to the defendant corporation.

Briefly stated the bill alleges, among other things, that the pretended lease was neyer authorized or ratified at any legal meeting, or by any legal vote of the hui, and that the person who assumed to execute it in behalf of the hui was not an officer thereof; all of which the…