In Re the Impeachment of Kageyama

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LE BARON, J.

This is a motion to dismiss the petition brought by the city and county attorney of Honolulu for the removal of the respondent from his office as supervisor of the City and County of Honolulu. The motion challenges not only the authority of the city and county attorney to institute removal proceedings against the respondent, purportedly exercised under section 604 of Revised Laws of Hawaii 1945, but the jurisdiction of this court to entertain such proceedings so instituted.

The petition in the light of existing statutes alleges in substance that the…