Julius Rothschild & Co. v. State

This is an action for property damage resulting from a flash flood and the consequent overflowing of the Moanalua Stream in the Mapunapuna Industrial Tract in Honolulu on April 19, 1974.

The plaintiffs-appellants, Julius Rothschild & Company, MidPac Lumber Company, Ltd., 1 and Twentieth Century Furniture, Inc., severally owned and operated warehouse plant facilities in the area inundated by the flood. Property loss and damage suffered by them were allegedly substantial.

Moanalua Stream flows down from the Koolau watersheds, through Moanalua Gardens and the Mapunapuna area, and then out to sea.…