Wong v. Hawaiian Scenic Tours, Ltd.

The question presented for decision is whether the circuit court erred in applying our comparative negligence law, HRS § 66S-31, as it read on May 2, 1975 when Wesley Wai Leong Wong was struck and fatally injured by a school bus owned by Defendant Hawaiian Scenic Tours, Ltd. (Hawaiian Scenic), a joint tort-feasor with Defendant-appellant City and County of Honolulu (the City). 1 We conclude the court below was correct in permitting recovery against the City, despite findings by the trial jury that Wesley Wai Leong Wong’s negligence was a causative factor in the fatal mishap and his share of…