STAFFORD v. MTL, INC.

No. 14315.

802 P.2d 480 (1990)

Barbara STAFFORD, Plaintiff-Appellee and State of Hawaii, Intervenor-Appellee, v. MTL, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

December 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P.H. Sumida (Clyde Wm. Matsui, Randall Y.S. Chung, Gary W.B. Chang, Michael N. Tanoue and Cary T. Tanaka, with him on the briefs), Honolulu, for defendant-appellant.

George Hom, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for intervenor-appellee.

Pamela J. Berman, Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUM, C.J., PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ., and HEEN, Intermediate Court of Appeals Associate Judge, in place of MOON, J. disqualified.


LUM, Chief Justice.

This court is compelled sua sponte to rule that the trial court violated our holding in Liu v. City & County, 63 Haw. 668, 634 P.2d 595 (1981), and abused its discretion in granting an interlocutory appeal after denying Appellant MTL, Inc.'s Motion for Summary Judgment. We therefore reverse and remand.

I.

Appellee Barbara Stafford, an employee of the State of Hawaii, was injured while...

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