Mossman v. Hawaiian Government

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PREAR, J.

This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of certain land covered by Land Commission Award 3-322 on the north*422easterly side of Hotel Street, in Honolulu, tbe plaintiff claiming title thereto by purchase.

Pleas and replications of considerable length were filed, setting forth the deeds and the records of the former proceedings referred to, but for the purposes of this decision they may be briefly stated in substance as follows:

Pleas. 1. That the plaintiff claims solely under two certain deeds from persons whose only claim of title was by descent from…