LARSEN v. STATE SAV. & LOAN ASS'N

No. 6993.

640 P.2d 286 (1982)

Richard S. LARSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, a Utah corporation doing business in the State of Hawaii, Allen S. Kubota and Does I through X, Inclusive, Defendants, and Warren Jung dba Manoa Pharmacy, Spengler and Son, Inc. and United Vintners, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

February 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander T. MacLaren, Koshiba & Young, Honolulu (Frank D. Padgett and Steven K.S. Chung, Honolulu, with him on the briefs, Frank D. Padgett, a Law Corp., Honolulu), for plaintiff-appellant.

Alexander C. Marrack, Honolulu (Raymond Engle, Honolulu, with him, on the brief, Hoddick, Reinwald, O'Connor & Marrack, Honolulu, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., LUM, NAKAMURA, JJ., and OGATA and MENOR, Retired Justices, Assigned by reason of vacancies.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict granted in a jury trial by the circuit court against appellant Richard S. Larsen at the close of appellant's case in a suit in which appellant seeks damages for an eye injury he incurred while opening a champagne bottle when the plastic stopper ejected spontaneously and struck him in the eye. The suit was in tort based on negligence and strict liability and was against appellant's employer,...

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