79 Hawai'i 64, Housing Finance and Development Corp. v. Castle

• Citation: 79 Hawaii 64,898 P.2d 576
• Parties: 79 Hawai'i 64 HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a public body and body corporate and politic, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James C. CASTLE (aka James Christian Castle); James C. McIntosh (aka James Castle McIntosh); Hawaiian Trust Company, Limited, a Hawaii Corporation, Trustees under that certain unrecorded trust agreement dated
• Decision Date: 05 August 1974
• Court: Supreme Court of Hawai'i

Page 576

898 P.2d 576

79 Hawai'i 64

HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a public body and body corporate and politic, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James C. CASTLE (aka James Christian Castle); James C.

McIntosh (aka James Castle McIntosh); Hawaiian Trust

Company, Limited, a Hawaii Corporation, Trustees under that

certain unrecorded trust agreement dated August 5, 1974 made

by Alice Hedemann Castle as "settlor" and James Christian

Castle as "individual trustee" as amended by those certain

unrecorded agreements dated May 15, 1976 and January 25,

1978, Defendants-Appellants, and Bryan Matsuo Agena, Elsa

Kazue Agena; Colleen Ahu; Robert Kahinano Ahu, III;

Charlotte Louise Phillips-Avila; Richard Frank Avila;

Barbara Jean Baldauf; James Aloysius Baldauf, Sr.;

Juliette Kuualoha Bissen; Morris Warren Bissen; Beverly

Ann Brunke; Victor August Carl Brunke; Jack Louis Cambra;

Sarah Leilani Cambra; Colette M. Chow; Philip Sui Tenn

Dang; Marshall Allan Eubanks; Susan Moana Eubanks;

Douglas Thomas Freitas; Loretta Gertrude Freitas; Rikue

Hamasaki; Robert Mamoru Hamasaki; Dennis Wayne Hethcote;

Palmyra Kuualoha Hethcote; Gladys Yoshiko Ishii; Luitza

Wai King Louie; Roland Siu Yin Louie; David Sprenkle

Martin; Dorothy Schumacher Martin; Kenneth Kiyoto Otsuka;

Roxane Wood Otsuka; Fred Masakuni Sakamoto; Grace Yukie

Sakamoto; Juanita Sampang; Lawrence E. Sampang; Hisako

Shishido; Ichiro Shishido; Chieko Sakurai Soares; Manuel

Soares; Betty Masagayani Stephenson; Castle K.K. Waiolama;

Mary K. Waiolama; Doris Yoshie Watanabe; Kenneth Hitoshi

Watanabe; Raymond Masato Watanabe; Sue-Ellen Kam Hung

Watanabe; Janet Miyeko Curry (aka Janet M. Curry); Antonio

Rafols Josol; Gabina Rosa Josol; Claire Kaeo; Elijah

Kaeo; Janice Lee; Simon C.W. Lee; Jack W. Morrison, Jr.;

Victoria L. Morrison; Ellen Raynette Pabillano; Bryan

Geoffrey Pearson; Celestine Aimee Pearson; Loretta T.

Schuler; Frances D. Silva; Louis F. Silva; Oinah E.

Silva; John Does 1-50; Mary Does 1-50; Doe Partnerships

1-50; Doe Corporations 1-50; and Doe "Non-Profit"

Corporations 1-50; Doe Entities 1-50, Defendants.

HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a public body and body corporate and politic, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HAROLD K.L. CASTLE FOUNDATION, a Hawaii non-profit

corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Jane Ann Wade Benouis;

Mustapha Kemal Benouis; Cheryl Brooke Bukarau; Waqanivalu

Isoa Bukarau; Caren Shizuko Demeo; Howard Joseph Demeo;

Marion G. Eaker; Roland W. Eaker; Barbara L. Jennings;

Kirk E. Jennings; Bernadette Kahahawai; Joseph Kahahawai;

Patricia Ann Kop; William Kop; Janice Marie Louch;

William James Louch; Sharyn Lee Munchmeyer; Myra Naomi

Munekata; Deborah Chieko Nogami Oyama; Neil Mitsuo Oyama;

Cleighton Pang; Sharon S. Pang; Catherine Hills Rice;

Richard Knapp Rice (James Paul Lynn Flynn, Jr. and Barbara

Jo Flynn Sanchez, Sellers under Agreement of Sale); Heather

Shepard Shannon; Mackenzie Herrick Shannon; Leonard John

Silva; James Jerome Smith; Rita Jane Renfro Smith; Chad

Ken Taniguchi; Dolly Sasaki Towne; Gordon Sheldrake Towne;

Earl Leroy Walker; Gary Lynn Wiseman; Jane Saeko Ikeda;

Koyoshi Ikeda; John A. Roney; Nancy C. Roney,

Defendants-Appellees, and Richard Francis Buonviri; Susan

Harrison Buonviri; Barbara Z. Culler; Timothy A. Culler

(William E. Lee and Ruth B. Lee, Sellers under Agreement of

Sale); Lawrence Bernard Kane, Jr.; Puanani Janette Kane;

Deborah Marr; Dorothy Mitsuko Oda; John Eichi Oda; Lydia

Robinson; Thurston E. Robinson; Carol Lynn Shulik; David

Ronald Shulik; Dorothy Eugenia Sigler; Edward Richard

Underwood; Edmund H. Volkart; May Ellen

D. Volkart; John Ronald Orsini; Karen Jo Patrick Orsini;

John Does 1-50; Mary Does 1-50; Doe Partnerships 1-50;

Doe Corporations 1-50; Doe "Non-Profit" Corporations 1-50;

and Doe Entities 1-50, Defendants.

HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a public body and body corporate and politic, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HAROLD K.L. CASTLE FOUNDATION, a Hawaii non-profit

corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Charles Matthews

White, George S. Yamamoto, Eloise F. Wickersham, and

Hawaiian Trust Company, Limited, a Hawaii corporation,

Successor Trustees of the trust created by the unrecorded

Declaration of Revocable Living Trust dated September 11,

1979, made by Horace Winfred Beek White, as Settlor and

Trustee, as amended; Bishop Trust Company, Limited, a

Hawaii corporation, Ancillary Special Administrator of the

Estate of Lewis Winn Stunston, Jr., having been so appointed

by the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii,

in a proceeding designated as Probate No. 41923; Leo G.

Ziffren, Lester Ziffren and Robert L. Caldwell, successor

Trustees of the trust created by Declaration of Trust dated

September 9, 1988, as amended, executed by Paul Trousdale,

also known as Paul Whitney Trousdale and Paul W. Trousdale,

as Trustor and Trustee, a memorandum of which has been

recorded in the Office of the Assistant Registrar of the

State of Hawaii as Document No. 1752870 and in the Bureau of

Conveyances of the State of Hawaii as Document No.

90-144115; W. Lawrence Clapp, Ancillary Special

Administrator of the Estate of Marguerite T. Peck, also

known as Marguerite Reid Peck, Marguerite Trousdale,

Marguerite Reid Trousdale, Marguerite Trousdale Peck and

Marguerite Peck, having been so appointed by the Circuit

Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii, in a proceeding

designated as Probate No. 42920; W. Lawrence Clapp,

Successor Trustee of the trust created by the Trust

Agreement dated June 30, 1965, made by and between Paul

Whitney Trousdale as Settlor, and Horace Winfred Beek White,

as Trustee, which has been filed in said office as Document

No. 378726 and recorded in said Bureau in Liber 5135, at

page 538, as supplemented; W. Lawrence Clapp, Ancillary

Personal Representative of John Dabney Murchison, deceased,

having been so appointed by the Circuit Court of the First

Circuit, State of Hawaii, in a proceeding designated as

Probate No. 40353; Willis Lawrence Clapp, as Authorized

Agent and Attorney-in-fact on behalf of the Estate of

Clinton Williams Murchison, Jr., deceased, pursuant to and

under the supervision of the United States Bankruptcy Court

for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, in Case

No. 385-30266-A-11; Heirs and/or Devisees of Thomas H.

Lively, Jr. and Robert F. Thompson, deceased, by virtue of

an unrecorded written agreement as disclosed by that certain

Affidavit dated August 31, 1988; Embassy Hawaii

Corporation, a Hawaii corporation (formerly known as

Blackfield Hawaii Corporation, a Hawaii corporation);

Robert Steven Ale; Frances K. Asing; John M. Asing; Jamie

Louise Ault; John William Ault; Holly K. Bachini; Robert

C. Bachini; Gail Choon Sil Brown; William Wesley Harrison

Brown; Carole Ann Brutlag; Bonnie Sue Busch; Gail Diane

Caveney; Robert Lawrence Caveney; Dennis Deano Crabtree;

Lisa Ann Crabtree; Miriam S. Curry; Raphael J. Curry;

Joseph Lovejoy Dwight III; Robin Wittbrodt Dwight; Helga

Gertrude Emmerson; John George Emmerson; Byron J.

Ferreira; Carolyn G. Ferreira; Geraldine Reiko Fukumoto;

Dolores Jane Graham; Paul Frederick Graham; James Douglas

Hamblett; Gwenette Ann Higa; Harumi Hirata; Malfalda

Hirata; Betty J. Howard; George F. Howard; Donald A.

Hudson; Kathleen Defoster Hudson; Elizabeth Theresa

Kollan; Gregory Michael Kollen; Lydia

K. Lake; Thomas C. Lake, Jr.; Julie Rae Lindemann;

Richard John Lindemann; Danel Allen McDougal; Jo Shalimar

McGirr; Murton Ken McGirr; Craig Stephen McGlinn;

Kathleen Tracy McGlinn; Donald Owen McInnis; Peggy

Lorraine McInnis; Ann Stamp Miller; Peter Franklin Miller

(Debra T. Ozawa, Seller under Agreement of Sale); Donald

Ray Moore; Cary R. Nederhouser; Denise Nederhouser;

Cynthia Rae Newsome; Keith Allison Newsome; Nooria Noor;

Elizabeth Kelsey Owens; Elmer Lee Owens; Carol A.

Pagaduan; Orlando R. Pagaduan; Lucille M. Peck; Marcella

Elvera Porzelt; Russell Daniel Porzelt; Hillary Ann

Radovich; Scott Douglas Radovich; Alfredo Roque; Arnel M.

Roque; Rosario Roque; Gary Paul Shuman; Geraldine

Patricia Shuman; Sylvester Sneidar; Tiare Jacque Sneidar;

Carolyn J. Steinberg; John Wesley Stephens; Christopher

John Stevens; Holly Carlyn Stevens; Judy Koshie Tanabe;

Harry Eugene Wellman; Mary Mari Yasuda; Roy Masao Yasuda,

Frederick M. Smith; Catherine K. Smith,

Defendants-Appellees, and Deborah Kay Ziemke; John Does

1-200; Mary Does 1-200; Doe Partnerships 1-50; Doe

"Non-Profit" Corporations 1-50; Doe Corporations 1-50; and

Doe Entities 1-50, Defendants.

HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a public body and body corporate and politic, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Christian CASTLE (aka James C. Castle); James Castle

McIntosh (aka James C. McIntosh); Hawaiian Trust Company,

Limited, a Hawaii corporation, Trustees under that certain

unrecorded trust agreement dated August 5, 1974, made by

Alice Hedemann Castle, as Settlor, and James C. Castle, as

Individual Trustee, as amended by those certain unrecorded

agreements dated May 15, 1976 and January 25, 1978,

Defendants-Appellants, and Barbara Ann Almquist; Eldon

Joseph Almquist; Camille Analani Chun; Henry Anthony Chun;

Loralyn Cramer; Elizabeth Kaleikoa; Faye Kim; Michael

T.I. Kim (Tracy A. Wong, fka Tracy A. Kim, Marcel Ohta and

Frances Ohta, Sellers Under Agreement of Sale); Jason

Tetsuo Kutaka; Susan Sumie Kutaka; Rosemarie Mielke;

Werner Mielke; David Mannie Nakoa; Mieko Nishida; Yasuo

Nishida; Bernadette Page; Michael R. Page; Ernest Tsuneo

Watanabe; Shizue Katashima Watanabe; Herbert R. Welder,

Jr.; and Nancy N. Welder, Defendants-Appellees, and Laban

Lee Bun Chang; Sandra Galeone Chang; Florence Carolyn

Conway; John Lee Fink; Sharon Ann Fink; Aloha Daisy

Gellert; Nathan Henry Gellert III; Francis Frederick

Green, Jr.; Martha Rose Green; Delmarie Motta Klobe;

Thomas Michael Klobe; Barbara Louise McKee; Catherine

Powell Miles; Gregory A. Miles; Enid Reid Odo; Franklin

Shoichiro Odo; Mary W. Pochereva; Thomas W. Pochereva;

Christine Trick Roseman; Charles Anthony...