Young v. Price

*23OPINION OF

CASSIDY, J.,

WITH WHOM LEWIS AND MIZUHA, JJ., JOIN.

In this action the jury returned a verdict awarding plaintiff $37,500.00 general damages and $424.90 special damages, for injuries sustained when she fell, on March 4, 1958, after stubbing her toe or stepping on a one-inch hose that defendants, while performing a construction job, had laid across a sidewalk in Waikiki. There was testimony that a warning cone had been placed near each edge of the sidewalk in the vicinity of the hose. One of them had a red flag protruding from it. The evidence pertaining to liability is related in…