COSMOPOLITAN FINANCIAL CORP. v. RUNNELS

No. 6453.

625 P.2d 390 (1981)

COSMOPOLITAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Elroy L. RUNNELS, Elmer D. Phillips, Francis T. DeMello and Melvin P. Leong, Defendants-Appellees.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii.

Reconsideration Denied March 30, 1981.

Certiorari Denied April 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Gedan, Honolulu (Owen H. Hellekson, Jr., Honolulu, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Bernard K. Trask, for defendants-appellees.

Before HAYASHI, C.J., and PADGETT and BURNS, JJ.


HAYASHI, Chief Judge.

Appellant appeals from a judgment entered below finding liability against Appellee Runnels only on a promissory note due appellant.

The paramount issues raised on appeal are (1) whether the trial court erred in admitting testimony concerning contemporaneous statements made to defendants-appellees by the payee corporation's officer to the effect that the promissory notes signed by them would not be enforced against them; and (2) whether...

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