Asaeda v. Haraguchi

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

KEMP, C. J.

From a compensation order in favor of Masami Asaeda against Minoru Haraguchi, his employer, an appeal was taken by Haraguchi to the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeal Board, Bureau of Workmen’s Compensation, Territory of Hawaii, and the appeal board has reserved to this court for its opinion and decision the following question of law: “Is an injury received by a workman employed at his regular job, by an unprovoked assault by a third party, a compensable injury under chapter 77, Revised Laws of Hawaii 1945, as an injury arising out of and in the course of…