APPLICATION OF KAMAKANA

No. 5860.

574 P.2d 1346 (1978)

Application of Cecilia Keohokalani KAMAKANA, to register and confirm her title to land situated on the southerly side of Kamehameha V Highway, at Kawela, Molokai, Hawaii.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

February 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S.O. Lee, Deputy Atty. Gen., State of Hawaii, Honolulu, for State of Hawaii, appellant.

Louis B. Blissard, Honolulu, for appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and KOBAYASHI, OGATA, MENOR and KIDWELL, JJ.


RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

The State of Hawaii appeals from a Land Court Decree holding that applicant-appellee, Cecilia Keohokalani Kamakana, is the owner in fee simple of Kanoa fishpond.1 Kanoa fishpond is located in the ahupua'a of Kawela, on the Island of Molokai, and extends out into the sea.2

We affirm.

In 1854, the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles, by L.C. Aw. 8559-B,

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