IN RE APPLICATION OF ASHFORD

No. 4516.

50 Haw. 314 (1968)

440 P.2d 76

In the Matter of the Application of CLINTON RUTLEDGE ASHFORD and JOAN BEVERLY SCHUMM ASHFORD to register title to real property situate at Kainalu, Molokai, State of Hawaii.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

April 30, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S.O. Lee, Deputy Attorney General (Bert T. Kobayashi, Attorney General, with him on the briefs), for respondent-appellant.

Charles B. Dwight III (Stephenson, Ashford & Wriston of counsel) for applicants-appellees.

RICHARDSON, C.J., MIZUHA, MARUMOTO, ABE AND LEVINSON, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT BY RICHARDSON, C.J.

On August 22, 1963, Clinton R. Ashford and Joan B.S. Ashford, the appellees, petitioned the land court to register title to certain land situate on the Island of Molokai. The lands are the makai (seaward) portions of Royal Patent 3004 to Kamakaheki and Royal Patent 3005 to Kahiko, both issued on February 22, 1866.

The question before this court is the location of the makai boundaries of both parcels of land, which are...

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