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QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER v. KAGAWA

No. 21034.

967 P.2d 686 (1998)

88 Hawai`i 489

The QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. June Tokiyo KAGAWA, Defendant-Appellee.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

Reconsideration Denied October 7, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Clement, Honolulu, on the briefs, for plaintiff-appellant.

Judith Ann Pavey (Pavey & Glickstein), Honolulu, on the brief, for defendant-appellee.

Before WATANABE, ACOBA AND KIRIMITSU, JJ.

ACOBA, Judge.

We hold that pursuant to the plain and unambiguous terms of Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) § 572-24 (1993), the spousal liability statute, Defendant-Appellee June Tokiyo Kagawa (Wife) is liable to pay for "necessaries," in this case, services which were provided by Plaintiff-Appellant The Queen's Medical Center (QMC) to her now deceased husband, Wendell I. Kagawa (Husband). In our view, such a construction...

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