Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. v. Wailuku Sugar Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

Fourteen grounds are set forth in the motion for a .rehearing, but those that are relied on or that need be considered may be summed up in the proposition that the recent decision, reported in 15 Haw. 675, in respect of which a rehearing is sought, is in conflict with what has been referred to in this litigation as the Lonoaea decision, reported in 9 Haw. 675, as construed in the decision, reported in 14 Haw. 50, on the plea in bar in the present case. These last mentioned decisions are claimed to be con*114trolling — not merely as precedents on points of law,…