Pae v. Stevens

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

This cause was here upon a previous appeal and was remanded to the Supreme Court of Hawaii upon the specific ground that there was manifest error as matter of law in the affirmance of a finding of the trial court that “the failure to register the age of plaintiff upon the certificate” in a Torrens Act proceeding (Rev.Laws 1955, § 342-1 et seq.) “was due to the negligence of plaintiff himself.” 1 Specifically, this Court held there was a failure to apply the principles of the common law, since the negligence of a minor is not conclusive *450against him in an action…