WIGHT ET AL. v. LUM ET ALS.

NO. 2984.

41 Haw. 504 (1956)

WILDER WIGHT AND JOHN I.F. REPPUN v. CLARA K.J. LUM, WILHELMINA H.J. PUAA, EMMA K. MAKAHILAHILA, CHARLOTTE K. ADAMS, HENRY H. BECKLEY, METCALF K. BECKLEY, ALICE B. HARRIGAN, AMBROSE HUTCHISON, HELEN YOSHIKO HUTCHISON, CHRISTINE U. LAMSON, MABEL H. ARNOLD, CHARLES K. HUTCHISON, JOHN H. MAGOON, JOHN H. MAGOON, JR., ADELE W. MAGOON, FANNY D. WARREN, EMMA DAMIEN, JOSEPH LIMA, ALVERETTA K. KAMAILE, WYNONA M. LAI, JULINE N.L. LIMA, NORMAN B. McGUIRE, RACHEL DAVIS McGUIURE, ALSO KNOWN AS RACHEL McGUIRE, MRS. JOSEPH DAVIS KUIA, ALSO KNOWN AS MRS. JOSEPH DAVIS DOW, WALTER BROWN ROSEHILL, ALSO KNOWN AS WALTER K. BROWN, LOUISE MARGARET DE ARCE PYLE, ALSO KNOWN AS HILDA DE A. PYLE, KENNETH M. WATAOKA, CLARA WATAOKA, ALLEN M. STEWARD, LYDIE L. STEWARD, J.C. CARREIRO, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF HENRIETTA KAMOKU, DECEASED, LOUISE K.N. PAOA, MAURICE DUDOIT, GUS NIHOA, IOSEPA MRS. NAONE, KAHELE, KANEAKUA, MUKIKI, KAAIHUE, PA KAAIHUE, JOHN DOE SIXTH TO JOHN DOE TENTH, INCLUSIVE, JANE DOE THIRD TO JANE DOE TENTH, INCLUSIVE.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Decided December 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur H. Spitzer (Wilder Wight on the briefs) for the appellants.

John F. Dyer (Hogan, Jamieson, Dyer & Rothwell on the brief) for appellees.

RICE, C.J., STAINBACK AND MARUMOTO, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT BY MARUMOTO, J.

This is an appeal by petitioners from an order of the circuit judge dismissing their amended petition for partition of the Ahupuaa of Honomuni on Molokai insofar as it affects two kuleanas within the ahupuaa claimed by respondents Edna Damien, Joseph Lima, Jr., Alveretta K. Kamaile, Wynona M. Lai, Eleanor K. Lee and Juline N.L. Lima, being apanas 1 and 2 of land commission award 6561.

In the original petition, petitioners...

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