HAWORTH v. STATE

No. 6110.

592 P.2d 820 (1979)

Robert E. HAWORTH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of Hawaii, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

April 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Krueger, Wailuku, Maui, for plaintiff-appellant.

Leighton Kim Oshima, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., OGATA and MENOR, JJ., and Retired Justice KIDWELL, assigned by reason of Vacancy.


KIDWELL, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant seeks damages for injuries incurred while working as a prisoner of the State serving a sentence at the Olinda Honor Camp, a minimum security penal institution on the island of Maui. Together with other prison inmates, appellant had been assigned to the work of removing loose boulders and rocks from embankments adjacent to and rising above a public road. Appellant suffered his injuries by a fall from such an embankment while engaged...

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