DuPonte v. DuPonte

488 P.2d 537 (1971)

Harold L. DuPONTE, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

Dorothy W. DuPONTE, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 5076.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

August 31, 1971.

Frank D. Padgett, Honolulu (Padgett, Greeley, Marumoto & Akinaka, Honolulu, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

A. William Barlow, Honolulu, for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., ABE, LEVINSON, and KOBAYASHI, JJ., and Circuit Judge M. DOI in place of MARUMOTO, J., disqualified.

RICHARDSON, Chief Justice.

By this appeal, Harold L. DuPonte, plaintiff below, seeks reversal of an order by the Family Court of the Second Circuit granting…