Halawa Plantation, Ltd. v. County of Hawaii

*754OPINION OP THE COURT BY

QUARLES, J.

The plaintiff commenced this action to recover from the defendant county damages for loss and injury to a growing crop of cane caused by fire alleged to have been negligently started by road employees regularly employed and authorized to repair a road near the property of the plaintiff by the defendant. To the complaint the defendant demurred upon the grounds that the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action; that the defendant, being a body corporate and politic, is not liable for the alleged negligent acts; that repairing…