STATE, BY ATTY. GEN. v. PIONEER MILL CO.

No. 7532.

637 P.2d 1131 (1981)

STATE of Hawaii, By its ATTORNEY GENERAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. PIONEER MILL COMPANY, LIMITED, a Hawaii corporation; Maui Electric Company, Limited, a Hawaii corporation; Hawaiian Telephone Company, a Hawaii corporation; Hawaiian Trust Company, Limited, a Hawaii corporation, Trustee; Bishop Trust Company, Limited, a Hawaii corporation, Trustee; Kaukau, Adamu Kaukau, J. A. (Adam) Kaukau, Kaimi Meheula or Their Respective Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns; John Does 1 through 100, Mary Roes 1 through 100, and Doe Corporations 1 through 100, Unknown Owners or Claimants, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

December 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S.O. Lee, Deputy Atty. Gen. (Terence S. Yamamoto, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, with him on briefs), for plaintiff-appellant cross-appellee.

Robert B. Bunn, Honolulu (Philip J. Leas and Nancy J. Stivers, Honolulu, with him on briefs; Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendant-appellee, cross-appellant Pioneer Mill Co., Ltd.

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


NAKAMURA, Justice.

The State of Hawaii appeals from a judgment awarding Defendant Pioneer Mill Co., Ltd. (hereafter Pioneer) $734,072.75, pursuant to a jury verdict, in an eminent domain proceeding to acquire several parcels of land owned by Pioneer near Lahaina, Maui, for highway construction.1 It asserts there were prejudicial errors in rulings on the admissibility of evidence and in the instructions...

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