Yoshimasu v. Venhuizen

*293OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PERRY, J.

The respondent, being at the time the owner of a certain parcel of land situate at Kuiaha, Hamakualoa, Maui, known as “Homestead Lot No. 55,” on December 2, 1918, entered into an agreement in writing with one K. Matsuoka wherein the respondent was described as the “landlord” and Matsuoka as the “tenant” and in . which it was agreed in substance as follows: that the landlord “does hereby empower and authorize the tenant to enter immediately in and upon and use and occupy seventeen acres” of said homestead lot No. 55; that the tenant would in a skilful and proper…