HAW. HOUSING AUTHORITY v. AJIMINE

NO. 2906.

39 Haw. 543 (1952)

HAWAII HOUSING AUTHORITY, A PUBLIC BODY AND A BODY CORPORATE AND POLITIC, v. CHIYO AJIMINE, KIMIKO AJIMINE, MATSUKICHI AJIMINE, ROSE S. AJIMINE, TARUSUKE AJIMINE, CHOTARO AKAMINE, HATSUKO AKAMINE, GEORGE C. AKAMINE, ANTONIO COSTA AMORINO, HENRY Y. AOKI, KIYO AOKI, KIYOTO AOKI, ROBERT Y. AOKI, CRENCIA APUAN, FELICIANO APUAN, MARY APUAN, GUJI ARAKAKI, ALSO KNOWN AS GUZU ARAKAKI, RUTH Y. ARAKAKI, SHIRLEY M. ARAKAKI, TAKEICHI ARAKAKI, TAKEJIRO ARAKAKI, TAKEMITSU ARAKAKI, TAKEZO ARAKAKI, TETSUO ARAKAKI, TSURUKO ARAKAKI, WALTER H. ARAKAKI, YOSHIO ARAKAKI, SHIGEO ARAKI, SHIZUE ARAKI, KOSU AWAKUNI, YASUO AWAKUNI, BISHOP TRUST CO., LTD., AN HAWAIIAN CORPORATION AND JOHN HENRY M. MAGOON, SR., AS TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL AND OF THE ESTATE OF JULIET C. MAGOON, DECEASED, ANTONIO D. CASTRO, TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE H. HOLT, DECEASED, HATSUE EGAMI, KUMATA EGAMI, MINORU EGAMI, MATSUE EGAMI, CATHERINE FERNANDEZ, FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ, LYDIA FREITAS, GEORGE FURTADO, EMMETT T. HIGA, JANE M. HIGA, ETHEL HIGASHI, ISU HIGASHI, NABI HIGASHI, YUEN HIN, JAMES A.V. HORSFALL, SUE S. AOKI HORSFALL, ELSIE M. INOUYE, RICHARD S. INOUYE, ELLEN HISAKO ISHIMINE, FLORENCE C. ISHIMINE, KOSHO ISHIMINE, HIDEKI ITAI, KAY K. ITAI, MARGIE T. ITAI, MICHIE ITAI, MARY ANN KALAN, GRACE KIKUYAMA, JUNICHI KOBASHIGAWA, MATSUE KOBASHIGAWA, CHIYO KOKI, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHIYO AJIMINE, DOLORES KOKI, ETHEL KOKI, TOKUSO KOKI, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TARUSUKE AJIMINE, TOM KOKI, FRED R. KOTANI, KAMADO KOTANI, SYBIL M. KOTANI, FRANK LADERA, MAGOON BROS., LTD., AN HAWAIIAN CORPORATION, CHITSU NABESHIMA, GENTARO NABESHIMA, HENRY Y. NAKAHODO, MASAO NAKAHODO, SABURO NAKAHODO, SANRA NAKAHODO, UTO NAKAHODO, ALICE S. NAKAMA, DOROTHY H. NAKAMA, USHI NAKAMA, BETSY M. NAKAMOTO, FLORENCE F. NAKAMOTO, KOGEN NAKAMOTO, MATSUA NAKAMOTO, MATSUZU NAKAMOTO, SEITARO NAKAMOTO, YEIJIRO NAKAMOTO, EDNA Y. NAKAMURA, HELEN H. NAKAMURA, KAME NAKAMURA, KYOYEI NAKAMURA, LEATRICE T. NAKAMURA, MASHI NAKAMURA, SHOYEI NAKAMURA, MARY F. NEVES, HENRY R. OSHIRO, JANE Y. OSHIRO, KAMATO OSHIRO, NANCY M. OSHIRO, ROBERT T. OSHIRO, RYOYEI OSHIRO, TAKEHIRO OSHIRO, JANE S. OYAMA, NIZAEMON OYAMA, TADAO OYAMA, PIO PAGTOLINGAN, ROSEBELLE PAGTOLINGAN, TOSHIKO SAKIHARA, SANTIAGO SALON, FERDINAND J.H. SCHNACK, ROBERT SOON, SOW SOON, EDDY SOUSA, DAVID TAMANAHA, FUMIKO TAMANAHA, AI TANOUYE, ETHEL K. TANOUYE, MASAICHI TANOUYE, MASAO TANOUYE, MINORU TANOUYE, MOJIU TANOUYE, TATSUHEI TANOUYE, TATSUO TANOUYE, WALLACE T. TANOUYE, WALTER K. TANOUYE, ROSE OLIVIERA TELLES, VINCENT PAUL TELLES, EISHIN TENGAN, ISAMU TENGAN, KAMA TENGAN, KENSUKE TENGAN, KIYOKO TENGAN, MORRIS Y. TENGAN, GLADYS T. UEHARA, ISAMU UEHARA, MASAICHI UMEDA, TATSUKO UMEDA, CALVIN VALENTINE, JANET ITAI VALENTINE, CLIFFORD M. YASUTOMI, VIOLET K. YASUTOMI, KAZUO YOSHIMURA, YOSHIE YOSHIMURA, JOHN DOE 1 TO JOHN DOE 550 INCLUSIVE, MARY ROE 1 TO MARY ROE 550 INCLUSIVE, DOE CORPORATION 1 TO DOE CORPORATION 550 INCLUSIVE, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND CLAIMANTS.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Decided October 15, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.C. Shnack (F. Schnack with him on the briefs) for respondent-appellant Ferdinand J.H. Schnack.

W.M. Blatt, Deputy Attorney General (also on the brief), for petitioner-appellee.

TOWSE, C.J., LE BARON AND STAINBACK, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT BY LE BARON, J.

This is an interlocutory appeal (by way of a bill of exceptions) from a decision of the trial judge in eminent-domain proceedings resolving the issue of public use in the affirmative. That issue was raised in the court below by an answer of one of the respondents who owns a parcel of the area of land sought to be condemned. The answer denied that "clearance, replanning...

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