PARNAR v. AMERICANA HOTELS, INC.

No. 8159.

652 P.2d 625 (1982)

Eugenie PARNAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICANA HOTELS, INC., a Delaware corporation, Flagship International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Mark E. Liquori, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

October 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan M. Ichinose, Honolulu (Mukai, Ichiki, Raffetto & MacMillan, Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Burnham H. Greeley and Dan T. Kochi, Honolulu (Carlsmith, Carlsmith, Wichman & Case, Honolulu, of counsel) and Roy A. Vitousek, Honolulu (Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and LUM, NAKAMURA, PADGETT and HAYASHI, JJ.


HAYASHI, Justice.

The question raised by this appeal is whether Appellant Eugenie Parnar (hereinafter Parnar), whose contract was of indefinite duration hence terminable at the will of her employers, may sue for damages for an allegedly retaliatory discharge. The lower court held she could not and granted appellees' two motions for summary judgment as to all six counts of Parnar's complaint. Parnar appeals from these orders granting summary judgment and from the lower...

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