Choy Look See v. Royal Insurance

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J. (Galbraith, J., dissenting.)

This is one of many insurance cases arising out of the burning of “Chinatown” in the city of Honolulu on January 20, 1900. The policy.is for $1000 upon two- buildings, one on the East corner of Beretania and River streets, the other on the same side of River street 60 feet from the same corner. The fire spread to these buildings from other buildings which had been set on fire by order of the Board of Health because of infection by bubonic plague. See Wong Chow v. Trans. Fire Ins. Co., 13 Haw. 160 and Saw. Land Co. v. Lion Fire…