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WONG v. HAWAIIAN SCENIC TOURS, LTD.

No. 7047.

642 P.2d 930 (1982)

Randolph W.T. WONG, Administrator of the Estate of Wesley Wai Leong Wong, Deceased; Richard J.H. Wong and Elsie K.A. Wong, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HAWAIIAN SCENIC TOURS, LTD., a Hawaii corporation, doing business as Kaneohe School Bus Service, and John Does, Doe Partnerships and Doe Corporations I through X, Defendants, and City and County of Honolulu, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

March 24, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Ripley, Jr., Honolulu (Edmund L. Lee, Jr., Deputy Corp. Counsel, Honolulu, on the briefs), for defendant-appellant.

Paul E. DiBianco, Honolulu (Darwin L.D. Ching, Honolulu, with him on the brief; Paul E. DiBianco, A Law Corp., Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., NAKAMURA, J., MARUMOTO, Retired Justice, in Place of LUM, J., Disqualified, and OGATA and MENOR, Retired Justices, Assigned by Reason of Vacancies.

PER CURIAM.

The question presented for decision is whether the circuit court erred in applying our comparative negligence law, HRS § 663-31, as it read on May 2, 1975 when Wesley Wai Leong Wong was struck and fatally injured by a school bus owned by Defendant Hawaiian Scenic Tours, Ltd. (Hawaiian Scenic), a joint tort-feasor with Defendant-appellant City and County of Honolulu (the City).1 We conclude the court below was correct in...

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