County of Hawai'i v. C & J Coupe Family Ltd. Partnership

Opinion of the court by

ACOBA, J.

This case arises from two condemnation actions brought by Plaintiff-Appellee County of Hawaii (Appellee or the County). In both actions Appellee sought to condemn property belonging to Defendant-Appellant C&J Coupe Family Limited Partnership (Appellant) 1 for use as a public highway (Bypass).2 1250 Oceanside Partners (Oceanside), a development company that was to build the Bypass through an agreement with Appellee, was added in Civ. No. 00-1-0181K (Condemnation 1) as a Third-Party Defendant and, therefore, is the Third-Party DefendanL-Ap-pellee in the appeal in…