Iona v. Uu

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

This is an action of ejectment for land covered by R. P. 6634, L. C. A. 3588 to Koula. Kawelo, the patentee’s grantee, died *433in 1879 leaving her husband, Iona, and three sons, the plaintiffs, the latter all then under age. Iona in 1883 executed a paid up lease of the land for a term of 50 years for $200 to one Akiona alias Achong. Akiona went to China about ten years afterwards and a year or two after his departure one Chin Fat Kee, representing himself as agent of Akiona, sold the lease and a house upon the land to the defendant Brandt for $300, as shown by a…