HAIKU PLANTATIONS ASSOCIATION v. Lono

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter declaratory judgment about scope of easement because fee owner was not a party to the action
• holding that a court was “in no position to render a binding adjudication” if that ruling could affect a non-party holding a rever-sionary interest in the parcel of land that was the subject of the litigation
• stating that, “[i]n order for the decree of the lower court to be binding upon such [absent] persons, they must be made parties to the suit, either as plaintiffs or defendants”
• “In order for the decree of the lower court to be binding upon [] persons, they must be made parties to the suit, either as plaintiffs or defendants.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• Owner of reversionary interest in land \has a substantial interest in such property and such a person should be made a party in any litigation which may in any way reach or concern such interest.\
• Owner of reversionary interest in land “has a substantial interest in such property and such a person should be made a party in any litigation which may in any way reach or concern such interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).