In Re Application

This is an appeal from the decree of the land court entered in Land Court Application No. 327, registering title in the State of Hawaii to a 74,530 square foot parcel (1.73 acres) of land in Moiliili, Waikiki, Oahu, claimed as a schoolhouse site under School Grant No. 27, Royal Patent No. 27, pursuant to the "School Lands Act of 1850." Respondent-appellant, the Minnie  Becker Trust Estate,*fn1 claimed title to a 14,885 square foot portion thereof as being a part of the Ili of Maulukikepa granted to Kalama and Nakookoo under the Mahele, or land division of Kamehameha III, whose title was confirmed by Land Commission Award Nos. 5240 and 5364, and acquired by the respondent by mesne conveyances through an unbroken chain of title from the awardees.*fn2