Maki v. City of Honolulu

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

COKE, C. J.

In the early morning of April 6, 1933, the plaintiff appellee, Jacob Jalmer Maid, a mechanic in the United States Navy, while driving his automobile along what is known as Ala Wai in the city of Honolulu, collided with the rear end of a garbage truck owned by the City and County of Honolulu and operated at the time by its employees. Accompanying the plaintiff in his automobile at the time were two friends, namely, Brown and Sands, both also of the Navy. Plaintiff’s car was utterly demolished and he received injuries about the head and face including deep…