State v. Kahua Ranch, Limited

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

WIRTZ, J.

This case concerns a hill for reformation brought by the State of Hawaii, plaintiff-appellee, as successor in interest to the Territory of Hawaii, covering the right of Kahua Ranch, Limited, defendant-appellant, as lessee of the State under General Lease No. 3358, dated February 14, 1951, (entered into between the Territory, as lessor, and Kahua, as lessee) to use “the Government waters arising on the land of Kawaihae 1st.”

Under this lease the government demised to Kahua certain lands 1 in the Ahupuaa of Kawaihae 1st by metes and bounds:

“TOGETHER ALSO WITH the…