Territory of Hawaii v. Mendonca

OPINION OP THE COURT BT

WIRTZ, J.

This is an appeal from the judgment entered in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit in an eminent domain proceeding brought by the plaintiff-appellee, herein referred to as the Territory, to acquire a parcel of land owned by appellants, herein referred to as the Mendonca Estate, for the construction of “the Kalihi Yalley Road, Federal Aid Secondary Project No. S-0630(l),” known as Likelike Highway. Under its petition, filed on September 8, 1954, the Territory sought to condemn a 118,073 square foot strip through a larger tract of land owned by the Mendonca…