S & W CRANE SERVICE v. DEPENDENTS OF BERARD

No. 4894.

489 P.2d 419 (1971)

S & W CRANE SERVICE, INC., and Pacific Insurance Company, Limited, Appellants-Appellees, v. DEPENDENTS of George H. BERARD, Jr., (Deceased), et al., Appellees-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

September 27, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harriet Bouslog, Honolulu (Bouslog & Symonds, Honolulu, of Counsel), for appellees-appellants.

Wilbur K. Watkins, Jr., Honolulu, for appellants-appellees.

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


RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

On December 15, 1965, the decedent, George H. Berard, Jr., reported for work at the Kalihi work yard of his employer, S & W Crane Service, Inc., (herein called appellee). Upon arrival, Berard was assigned to drive two fellow employees to a nearby work site. Returning from this assignment, the decedent assisted another fellow employee in moving a crane boom section. The decedent then climbed up the side of a 60-ton crane, a vertical distance...

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