IOKEPA v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 1405.

158 F.Supp. 394 (1958)

Joseph Kanakanui IOKEPA and Shirley Pualeilani Iokepa by Joseph Kanakanui Iokepa, her next friend, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Hawaii.

January 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bouslog & Symonds, Honolulu, Hawaii, Harriet Bouslog, for plaintiffs.

Louis B. Blissard, U. S. Atty., Dist. of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, by Edgar D. Crumpacker, Asst. U. S. Atty., Dist. of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant.


WIIG, District Judge.

This action was brought against the United States of America under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346(b), and the Hawaii Wrongful Death Act1 by the father and minor sister of Russell Iokepa, a minor, who died on May 31, 1954 as the result of injuries suffered when a dud shell exploded on the Parker Ranch on the island of Hawaii.

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