Hays v. City and County of Honolulu

MOON, Chief Justice.

In this beach injury case, plaintiff-appellant Sean Hays appeals from the First Circuit Court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee City and County of Honolulu (the city). Hays argues on appeal that the circuit court erred in concluding that the “discovery rule” did not apply in the present case and that Hays’s claim was therefore barred by the statute of limitations. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

On December 7, 1986, Hays was sitting with a friend on a low-lying rocky point protruding into the ocean at Makapu'u Beach Park on…