Dong Chong v. Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

This is an action for $123.15 damages caused to plaintiff’s mule, wagon and harness by a collision with one of defendant’s electric street cars. The district magistrate, who first tried the-case, ordered a nonsuit, and at the trial before a jury on appeal, the circuit judge also, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence,, ordered a nonsuit, on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to-show negligence on the part of the defendant — the latter’s motion for such nonsuit having been made on that ground and the additional ground that the evidence showed…