O'DANIEL v. Inter-Island Resorts, Ltd.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CASSIDY, J.

In September of 1955 the plaintiff (appellee) filed an action in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit to recover damages for injuries sustained by ber on the evening of August 21, 1954, through a fall on the premises of defendant’s Kona Inn in Kailua, Kona, on the Island of Hawaii, Third Judicial Circuit. The fall is alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligent failure to maintain adequate lighting of a step leading to a walk from a lanai of the hotel.

The case was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the defendant on…