SUNBEAM CORPORATION v. GEM JEWELRY COMPANY

Civ. No. 1589.

157 F.Supp. 838 (1957)

SUNBEAM CORPORATION, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. GEM JEWELRY COMPANY, Inc., a corporation, Gem Housewares Co., Inc., a corporation, Government Employees Mutual of Honolulu Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Hawaii.

November 19, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landels, Weigel & Ripley and Stanley A. Weigel, San Francisco, Cal., Pratt, Tavares & Cassidy, Honolulu, Hawaii, Roy A. Vitousek, Jr., Honolulu, Hawaii, of counsel, for plaintiff.

Heen, Kai, Dodge & Lum, Honolulu, Hawaii, R. G. Dodge, Honolulu, Hawaii, of counsel, for defendants.

Before McLAUGHLIN, Chief Judge.


Ruling Upon Motion to Dismiss

I have before me a motion to dismiss a complaint setting forth two alleged causes of action under the Hawaiian Fair Trade Act (Revised Laws of Hawaii 1955, Chapter 205), one for injunction and one for damages. Plaintiff has alleged diversity of citizenship and the $3,000 jurisdictional amount. Under the Hawaiian Fair Trade law Sunbeam products manufactured by the plaintiff corporation are fair-traded in this District. Despite that law...

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