Pringle v. Hilo Mercantile Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

The only assignment of error that need be noticed is that the verdict of the jury was rendered by nine only of the twelve jurors, the other three dissenting. The action was trespass and was tried at the last January Term of the Circuit Court. ,

"Whatever force the former statutes of Hawaii, which permitted verdicts to be rendered by nine of twelve jurors, may have had during the period intervening between the annexation of these islands to the Hnited States and the establishment of the territorial government (see Haw. Star Newspaper Co. v. Saylor, 12 Haw. 64;…