Hawaiian Government v. Hawaiian Tramways Co.

Opinion of the Court, by

Preston, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of Mr. Justice Dole allowing a demurrer for multifariousness and dismissing the plaintiff’s bill.

The substance of the bill and demurrer is sufficiently set forth in the opinion of Mr. Justice Dole.

We agree with the result arrived at in the case, but desire to point out more specifically where we consider the frame of the bill objectionable.

“ To lay down any rule applicable universally, or to say what constitutes multifariousness, as an abstract proposition, is upon the authorities utterly impossible. The cases upon the subject…