MOLOKAI HOMESTEADERS CO-OP. ASS'N v. COBB

No. 6403.

629 P.2d 1134 (1981)

MOLOKAI HOMESTEADERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, Samuel M. Peters, Sr., Rose May Peters Enos, Lucy Flores, Harry Kealoha, Maraea K. Pawn, Sr., Amoy Dacuycuy, Elizabeth Bartolome, Edward K. Pelekai, Martha Naeole, Elizabeth Makaiwi, James Mawae, Jr., Annie Kaawa, Ruth Awai, Joan Mollena, Edmund J. Kaimikana, Parker English, Philip I. Estermann, Samuel M. Peters, Jr., and Walter Ritte, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Christopher COBB, Individually and as Chairman, Board of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii; Board of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii; Kaluakoi Corporation, a Hawaii corporation; and County of Maui, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

June 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Cooper Brown, Honolulu (Philip D. Bogetto and Paul McCarthy, Honolulu, with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs-appellants.

James M. Sattler, Honolulu (Anne L. Williams, Honolulu, with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee Kaluakoi Corp.

Edwin P. Watson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, on answering brief for defendants-appellees Christopher Cobb and Board of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii.

Roy Y. Yempuku, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Wailuku, Maui, for defendant-appellee County of Maui, joined in reply brief of Kaluakoi Corporation; ratification of answering brief of Christopher Cobb and Board of Land and Natural Resources.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and OGATA, MENOR, LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ.


NAKAMURA, Justice.

This case represents the last in a series of legal challenges to the validity of the agreement between Defendant-Appellee Board of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii (hereafter the Board), and Defendant-Appellee Kaluakoi Corporation (hereafter Kaluakoi) for the use of the transmission facilities of the Molokai Irrigation System (hereafter the System) by Kaluakoi to transport water to its resort complex on the west end of the island...

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