Porter v. Hawaiian Pork Packing Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, J.

Tin's is an action of assumpsit for breach of a written contract. The plaintiff claimed $2000 damages and obtained a verdict for $957.40. Defendant took a number of exceptions to rulings made during the trial as well as an exception to the overruling of a motion for a new trial. The most important of these exceptions relate to or involve the construction of the contract, which is as follows:

*469“This indenture made this 10th day of March, A. D. 1892, by and between E. E. Porter, of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, of the first part, and The Hawaiian Pork…