MINNEAPOLIS FIRE & MARINE INS. CO. v. MATSON NAV. CO.

No. 4073.

352 P.2d 335 (1960)

MINNEAPOLIS FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO. v. MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

January 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold S. Wright, Honolulu (Smith, Wild, Beebe & Cades, Honolulu, with him on the brief), for appellant.

Leonard Lakin and William B. Cobb, Honolulu (Levinson & Cobb, Honolulu, on the briefs), for appellee.

Before TSUKIYAMA, C. J., and MARUMOTO, CASSIDY, WIRTZ and LEWIS, JJ.


CASSIDY, Justice.

From the allegations of the complaint and the record in this case it appears that while Walter and Ida B. Erman were guests at defendant's (appellant's) Royal Hawaiian Hotel they entrusted a mink coat to an employee of the hotel to be taken from and protected out of their room and the employee so negligently cared for the coat that it was lost or stolen while in his custody. Plaintiff (appellee), as insurer, paid the owners $2,000 for the loss and...

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