Von Holt v. Izumo Taisha Kyo Mission

*673OPINION OF THE COURT BY

RICE, C. J.

This is a taxpayer’s suit to have a “purported conveyance,” executed in the name of the City and County of Honolulu, a municipal corporation, as grantor, to an eleemosynary corporation, as grantee, set aside, cancelled, and declared null and void and of no effect.

On October 14, 1953, the petitioner-appellant, hereinafter referred to as the appellant, of and for himself and on behalf of all the taxpayers of the City and County of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, of which he alleged himself to be one of the class, filed a petition in the circuit court, first…