Legal Opinion
Ryoko Ito v. Macro Energy, Inc.
Supreme Court of The Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands
Decided October 26, 1993No. Appeal Nos. 92-020 & 92-022; Civil Action No. 89-0918PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DELA CRUZ, Chief Justice:
This consolidated appeal involves several issues arising from the plaintiffs wrongful death suit as personal representative for the heirs of the decedent, Mr. Akinobu Ito. Ito drowned while on a scuba diving trip supervised by the defendants. On the day of his death, Ito signed an “AGREEMENT FOR EXEMPTION FROM OBLIGATION.”
The trial court ruled on a pre-trial motion that the release exonerated defendants Macro Energy, Inc. (“Macro”) and Marianas Ocean Enterprises (“MOE”), but not defendants Yamagishi and Hirai. After a two-week trial, the trial court found that…
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