Lowery v. Territory of Hawaii

ORAL OPINION.

Hartwell, J.

The plaintiff’s petition claims the sum of $15,000 from the Territory for breach by the Territory of an agreement made in 1849 between the government of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands and the American Board, the petitioners claiming to be successors of the board; the agreement in effect being that in consideration that the board would relinquish to the government of the Kingdom its claim to certain land at Lahainaluna and transfer to that government the seminary buildings, furniture, books and apparatus therein, that government would continue the seminary at its…