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MATSUSHITA v. CONTAINER HOME SUPPLY, INC.

No. 11111.

726 P.2d 273 (1986)

Hideo MATSUSHITA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTAINER HOME SUPPLY, INC., a Washington corporation; Haleakala Transportation and Warehousing, Inc., a Hawaii corporation; and Thomas Thayer, Defendants-Appellees, and Pacific Container Services, Inc., a Hawaii corporation; John Does 1-20; Doe Corporations 1-20, and Doe Partnerships 1-20, Defendants. CONTAINER HOME SUPPLY, Inc., a Washington corporation, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HALEAKALA TRANSPORTATION AND WAREHOUSING, INC., a Hawaii corporation, and Thomas Thayer, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees, and Pacific Container Services, Inc., Third-Party Defendant.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii.

September 30, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence L. Tong (Richard E. Stifel, Ronald G.S. Au, and Connie G.W. Meredith with him on the briefs; Wayne H. Muraoka also with him on the reply brief; Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, of counsel), Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellant.

Archibald C.K. Kaolulo (Walter Davis and Alan K. Nii on the brief; Davis, Reid & Richards, of counsel), Honolulu, for defendant-appellee and third-party defendant-appellee Haleakala Transp. and Warehousing, Inc.

Randall Y. Yamamoto (James Kawashima and John T. Komeiji with him on the brief; Kobayashi, Watanabe, Sugita & Kawashima, of counsel), Honolulu, for defendant-appellee and third-party defendant-appellee Thomas Thayer.

Before BURNS, C.J., and HEEN and TANAKA, JJ.

TANAKA, Judge.

This appeal involves the construction of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 294-36(b),1 which on July 28, 1979, the date of the accident in this case, read as follows:

§ 294-36 Statute of limitations. * * * * * * (b) No suit arising out of a motor vehicle accident shall be brought in tort more than: (1) Two years after the date of the...

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