Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of HANAHULI ASSOCIATION, LIMITED to register title to real property situate at Hana, Maui, State of Hawaii
Court: Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii
Jurisdiction: Hawaii
Decision Date: 1975-02-19
Citations: 56 Haw. 160
Docket Number: NOS. 5499 & 5500
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of HANAHULI ASSOCIATION, LIMITED to register title to real property situate at Hana, Maui, State of Hawaii
Judges: 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
Reporter: Hawaii Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 160–160

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.