Hutchinson v. Keikiohua
Hawaii Supreme Court
ON APPEAL ON POINT OB LAW. The DEPENDANT signed a labor contract of A. B. with the plaintiff, and on the contract was written the word “security,” over defendant’s signature; Held; that the defendant was liable as security or guarantor for the default of the laborer. Case remanded to Police Court for judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the' Court by
Judd,,J.
The facts of this case are that a laborer engaged by a *48written- contract to serve the plaintiff at Hawaii for a term of two years at $10 per month, and received $100 as advance-upon the wages to* accrue under the contract; that the defendant brought the laborer to plaintiff’s agent in Honolulu*, and took part In the negotiations for his hiring, and signed the contract as “witness and security.” Defendant represented that the laborer was not then bound by any other contract, and undertook that the laborer should proceed from: Honolulu by a vessel to be-…
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