Hawaii Supreme Court August 15, 1862 (Montgomery v. Montgomery)

Allen, C. J.

This is a suit in equityr in which the complainant avers that M. Kekauonohi executed and delivered a deed of conveyance to him of a tract of land, called Puuloa on the 7th of September, 1849, and that on the 15th day of the same month he caused to be indorsed on the said instrument the following :

“ For and in consideration of the sum of eight thousand dollars, to me in hand, paid by