BARRETTO v. AKAU

No. 4792.

463 P.2d 917 (1969)

Marlene K. BARRETTO et al., v. Stanley AKAU.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1969.

As Amended December 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Padgett and James Krueger, Honolulu (Padgett, Greeley, Marumoto & Akinaka, Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Richard E. Stifel, Honolulu (Jenks, Kidwell, Goodsill & Anderson, Honolulu, of Counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., ABE, LEVINSON and KOBAYASHI, JJ., and Circuit Judge OGATA in place of MARUMOTO, J., disqualified.


LEVINSON, Justice.

This case comes to us on appeal from a judgment of $38,762.50 for plaintiff Marlene Barretto, a 16-year-old girl at the time of the accident, and $1,000 in favor of her parents, plaintiffs Manuel and Winifred Barretto. The suit was the result of an auto accident on October 3, 1965 in which the defendant, Stanley Akau, caused a head-on collision with another car while driving the car of Gerald Ito in which both Ito and plaintiff Marlene were also...

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