Brodie v. Hawaii Automotive Retail Gasoline Dealers Ass'n

*317OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PADGETT, J.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the appellees in a malicious prosecution action. We, in our discretion, reverse and remand for the reasons stated below.

The appellees are the Hawaii Automotive Retail Gasoline Dealers Association, Inc., a nonprofit corporation which is a trade association composed of various retail gasoline dealers, and certain of its members and directors. The appellants are Alexander H. Brodie and National Tire of Hawaii, Ltd., dba Lex Brodie’s Tire Company, a business which Mr. Brodie substantially owns and operates.…