Myers v. Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System

*95OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PADGETT. J.

This is an appeal by the Board of Trustees of the Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawaii from a circuit court order reversing a Board decision and ruling which had denied Appellee’s application for service-connected disability retirement. We affirm.

The essential facts are undisputed. On July 25, 1977 Appellee, a state employee, was preparing to conduct a training class. He lifted a half-full one hundred cup coffeemaker weighing approximately thirty-five pounds, and after carrying it a distance, turned and attempted to set it on a table. At that…