Hee Kee Chun v. United States

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant seeks damages for alleged loss because of a termination of a lease executed by the Government of the Territory of Hawaii, as lessor, to one Chun Chin, now deceased, as lessee. Section 91 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, .48 U.S.C.A. § 511, gives the territorial government the “possession, use, and control” of United States public lands in the Territory of Hawaii “until otherwise provided for by Congress, or taken for the uses and purposes of the United States by direction of the President or of the Governor of Hawaii.” It was pursuant to such authority that the…