ATLAS ELEVATOR CO. v. PRESIDING JUDGE OF CIRCUIT CT.

No. 4492.

412 P.2d 645 (1966)

ATLAS ELEVATOR CO. v. PRESIDING JUDGE OF the CIRCUIT COURT OF the FIRST CIRCUIT, Amy Chitae Segawa, Administratrix of the Estate of George Teruo Segawa, Deceased, Amy Chitae Segawa, Individually, Keith Tsutomu Segawa and Valerie Chiemi Segawa, Infants by Their Next Friend, and the City and County of Honolulu.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

March 24, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willson C. Moore, Jr., Honolulu (Harold W. Nickelsen, Honolulu, and Leo J. Walcom, San Francisco, Cal., on the briefs; Henshaw, Conroy & Hamilton, Honolulu, and Walcom & Harmon, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for petitioner.

A. Singleton Cagle, Honolulu (Smith, Wild, Beebe & Cades, Honolulu, of counsel), for respondents other than C & C of Honolulu.

William Yim, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Honolulu, was present but did not agree.

Before CASSIDY, Acting C. J., WIRTZ, LEWIS and MIZUHA, JJ., and Circuit Judge LEVINSON assigned by reason of vacancy.


LEWIS, Justice.

By petition for a writ of prohibition petitioner presents the question whether service of summons by filing the same with the Director of Regulatory Agencies of the State on September 16, 1964 subjected petitioner to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit in a certain action brought by respondents, who are Amy Chitae Segawa, individually and in a representative capacity and two infants, to recover damages for the death of the husband...

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