PAXTON v. STATE

No. 6800.

625 P.2d 1052 (1981)

Roger PAXTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Defendants-Appellees.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii.

Reconsideration Denied April 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Kemper, III, Kemper & Watts, Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward Yuen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for defendants-appellees.

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


PADGETT, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to set aside an order dismissing the case for failure to answer defendants' interrogatories.

The motion stated that it was "based upon Rules 55(b) and 60(a) through (e) of the Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure ..." Since this was not a default judgment but a dismissal as a sanction for failure to provide discovery, Rule 55(b) has no application. Rule 60(a), likewise, has no application since there...

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