Case ID: haw_56/html/0160-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of HANAHULI ASSOCIATION, LIMITED to register title to real property situate at Hana, Maui, State of Hawaii
    NOS. 5499 & 5500
    FEBRUARY 19, 1975
    RICHARDSON, C.J., OGATA AND MENOR, JJ., CIRCUIT JUDGE FONG in place of KOBAYASHI, J., disqualified, and CIRCUIT JUDGE KATO assigned by reason of vacancy
    
      Andrew S. O.Lee and Edwin P. Watson, Deputies Attorney General, George Pai, Attorney General (with them on the briefs) for respondent-appellant.
    
      Robert B. Bunn and Donald E. Searce (Cades Schutte Fleming and Wright of counsel) for applicant-appellee.
   Per Curiam.

The land court properly held that the relevant seaward boundaries of appellee Hanahuli’s land under dispute are located at the intersection of the shore and the upper reaches of the wash of the waves.

The phrase “highwater mark at seashore” used in Hanahuli’s applications’ description and in the land court’s decrees should, of course, be understood to refer to the upper reaches of the wash of the waves. County of Hawaii v. Sotomura, 55 Haw. 176, 517 P.2d 57 (1973), In re Application of Ashford, 50 Haw. 314, 440 P.2d 76 (1968).

We affirm the judgments of the land court.