Re Taxes, Haw'n Pineapple Co., Ltd.

DISSENTING OPINION OE

CIRCUIT JUDGE CROCKETT.

Where a question of statutory construction arises this court has uniformly held that words of a statute should be taken in their usual sense unless there is sufficient to indicate that they were intended to be taken in some other sense. In Hawaii Cons. Ry. v. Borthwick, 34 Haw. 269, this court reviewed the several decisions and summarized them at p. 272 as follows:

“It is a generally accepted rule of statutory construction that unless it appears by the context or otherwise in the statute a different sense was intended, words are to be given their…