Enos v. Honolulu Motor Coach Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PETERS, J.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, brought an action for damages under the provisions of section 4052, R. L. 1935. They are the parents and minor sisters of the deceased. The defendant was not the employer of the decedent at the time of the latter’s death.

The statute gives a right of action to dependents for the death by a wrongful act of one upon whom they were ■wholly or partly dependent and permits the recovery of such damages as “under all the circumstances may be just.”

The complaint in addition to alleging damages arising-from the deprivation of continued…