Medeiros v. Honolulu Motor Coach Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

KEMP, J.

The defendant Honolulu Motor Coach Company, Limited, is a public carrier of passengers and in that capacity operates motor coaches between Honolulu and Schofield. On August 31, 1936, shortly before midnight, it dispatched one of its thirty-passenger coaches fully loaded from Honolulu for Schofield in charge of one John Carvalho, one of its regularly employed drivers. Shortly after leaving Honolulu Carvalho permitted two of his friends, Henry Kaipo, Jr., and Fred Lewis, to board said coach as his guests for a ride to Schofield. They and one passenger occupied the…