State Ex Rel. Kobayashi v. Zimring

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

MARUMOTO, J.

The Puna volcanic eruption of 1955 created approximately 7.9 acres of land adjacent to the southerly bound-áries of Land Patent Grant No. 4139 to C. L. Wight and Land Patent Grant No. 4140 to H. E. Wilder. Before the eruption, the southerly boundaries of the grants were along the sea. The eruption destroyed the preexisting seashore boundaries, and formed a new seashore boundary at the southerly end of the new land.

Five years after the eruption, Maurice Zimring and Molly Zimring, husband and wife, obtained a deed from the then owners of Grants 4139 and 4140,…