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FRIEDRICH v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP.

No. 5868.

586 P.2d 1037 (1978)

William FRIEDRICH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, State of Hawaii, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied January 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. DiBianco, Honolulu (Hyman M. Greenstein, Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Bert T. Kobayashi, Jr., Honolulu (Kobayashi, Koshiba & Watanabe, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., OGATA, MENOR and KIDWELL, JJ., and BURNS, Circuit Judge, in place of KOBAYASHI, J., disqualified.

KIDWELL, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant seeks to recover from the State for severe personal injuries suffered when he fell into shallow water from the State-owned pier at Hanalei, Kauai. In a bench trial, the circuit court found that the State had not failed in any duty toward appellant and entered judgment for the State. We affirm.

According to State records in evidence, the original Hanalei pier was built in 1912, with concrete piles and timber framing and...

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