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PETERS v. PETERS

No. 6874.

634 P.2d 586 (1981)

Lilien G. PETERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Hans A. PETERS, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Reconsideration Denied October 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bert Sakuda, Honolulu (L. Richard Fried, Jr. and Craig K. Furusho, Honolulu, with him on the briefs; Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Haley & Kekina, Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Roy Hughes, Honolulu (James F. Ventura and Roy T. Chikamoto, Honolulu, with him on the brief; Libkuman, Ventura, Moon & Ayabe, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and OGATA, MENOR, LUM and NAKAMURA, JJ.

NAKAMURA, Justice.

We are asked to review a choice-of-law decision of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit in a negligence action arising from an automobile accident that occurred on the island of Maui while Plaintiff-appellant Lilien G. Peters and her husband, Defendant-appellee Hans A. Peters, both residents of New York, were vacationing in Hawaii. As we do not deem a judicial abrogation of our interspousal tort immunity rule appropriate, and the record discloses...

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