Kamohai v. Kahele

OPINION-BY

JUSTICE JUDD:

This is an action of ejectment for the possession of a part of a kuleana of land awarded to one Halai; and his son, the plaintiff, claims to have inherited the land from said Halai, who died intestate in 1849. The defendant claims under a deed from one Koa, who was Halai’s younger brother. At the trial the defendant put in evidence the following facts: That in 1855 a patent of the land so awarded was taken out in the name of Halai and remained in possession of Koa, who had at one time raised money by a mortgage on a portion of the land included in the patent. The…