Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance v. Macfarlane

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PREAR, C.J.

These applications for writs of mandamus to compel the Commissioners of Fire Claims to amend their awards in certain cases, were heard together both in the lower court and in this court on appeal.

Much property having been destroyed in the city of Honolulu during December, 1899, and January, 1900, under or in consequence of orders of the Board of Health in suppressing bubonic plague, provision was made by Act 15 of the Laws of *4831901 for the appointment of a Commission to bear and determine claims for damages for such loss of property and for tbe payment…