The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-10

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title to any portion Of that kuleans
which she therein described as be-
longing to Kalo.
.. The land herein sued for is
described in said deed as belonging
to Kalo; and plaintiff shows title tc
it from KalO. IF defendant executed
the deed in question to Fanny Young
Kekelaokalani, she cannot now be
heard to claim the land herein sued
| for, as being hers, under the will of
| Makaioulu, and the deed to her from
Kekipi.
20. If the jury believe that de-
PENDANT executed the deed to Fanny
Young Kekelaokalani, exhibit ID
she is presumed to have known its
contents, and she cannot now come
in and allege fraud or mistake there
in"
These requests were refused by the
Court. We consider that an estoppel
in pas was created by the deed of
Wahineaea. It was not an estoppel
by deed, for the representation was
not made directly to Kalo, she not
being party to it.
The definition of an estoppel in
pals is thus given by Lord Denman,
(Pickard V. Sears, 6 A & Ellis, 475.)
"Where one by his words or conduct
wilfully causes another to believe in
the existence of certain state of
things and induces him to act on that
belief, so as to alter his previous
position, the former is concluded
from averring against the latter a
different state of things as existing
at the same time" We adopted this
rule, admitting equitable estoppels
at law, in Kamohai V. Kahele, 3 Haw
$50.
Wahineaea made by her deed a
declaration not only that her half of
the apana devised by Makaioulu was
the other division belonged to Kalo.
Now, the deed Of Wahineaea YVES
proved. The only evidence against
it was Wahineaea's rather qualified
denial that she signed it. But her
admissions as to her going to the
acknowledging officer on the date of
the deed in company with Kalo about
this land shake her denial. We held
in Kamalu V. Lowell, 5 Haw. COL, that
"after lapse of time and circumstan-
ces of assent and possession the testi
mony of a grantor will not be sufi-
cient in law to set aside his deed"
We may take it as settled from the
evidence that the deed of Wahineaea
was executed. Now, whether an es-
topped results from established facts
is matter for the determination of
the Court Lewis v Carstairs, W.
& S. 200. eff the elements of an es-
topped are present the conclusion will
follow as matter of law" Herman
on Estoppel and res judic0to, sec.
1899.
It may be objected that the repre-
sentation Of Wahineaea that the
south eastern lot was hers and the
other Tor north westerly lot was
Kalo's was not made to Kalo and
therefore is not available to her priv
les.
In Waters appeal 35 Penn. st. 523,
it was held that a declaration in a
deed by vendor conveying and re-
leasing all ''his right, title, interest,
claim and demand whatsoever, in law
and equity" spread upon public re-
record, constituted an estOppel in
pals, of which the subsequent judg-
ment creditors of the veudee can avail
themselves; the vendor having so
acted as to induce the belief that he
had no further claim in the land, the |
vendor is stopped from setting up a |
prior judgment against those who |
had given credit to the vendee upon |
the faith of the existence of such q |
state of facts.
In Quirk V. Thomas, 6 Mich.
Is, land was conveyed to a
grantee to defraud creditors, and it |
was held that the deed appearing |
upon the public records was de-
claration to the world that the gran
tee was the true owner, and that |
though it intended only to defraud
any bona tide purchaser
could set up an estoppel against any
denial Of the grantees title. As was
said in Kinney V. Wilton, A Conn.
271 Gin case of public declaration
The whole public may act upon it,
and their action will fall within the
scope of the intention, actual or pre-
sumed, of the party making the
declaration"
Now the intending grantees of
Kalo in searching the title of the
and in the public records must
necessarily come upon the deed of
because both the title of
Kalo and Of Wahineaea came through
various conveyances from the will of
Finding this declaration
n Wahineaea's deed as to which
division was hers and which was
Aalo's, a purchaser would be author
zed to reply upon it, and the pre-
exists that Wahineaea in
ended the public to SO reply upon it.
Therefore she is estopped from now
etting up her denial that the land
ued for was Kalo's.
The whole case entities the Court
@ reverse the vedict and Judgment
nd to order judgment for the plain
if, non 06stante 0eredicto, which is
lone accordingly.
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