Supreme Court of the United States January 8, 1906, 144 (Carter v. Hawaii)

Mr. Justice Holmes

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a proceeding to establish the plaintiffs’ rights to a several fishery of the kind described in

Damon

v.

Hawaii,

194 U. S. 154, and comes here under the same circumstances as that case did. The fishery in question is a sea fishery within the reef in Waiaíae Iki, island of Oahu, and is claimed by metes and bounds in the complaint.