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· 7/11/1961

Mitchell v. Branch

Citations

  • 363 P.2d 969
  • 45 Haw. 128
  • 1961 Haw. LEXIS 65

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that where nexus was lacking, restitution could not be imposed
  • finding that UCATA was intended to end “[t]he inequity of equal contribution among joint tort-feasors” where one party had acted negligently and another had acted with “gross negligence and foolhardiness”
  • “Where there is conflicting evidence ... on the issue of proximate causation, the question is one for the trier of fact.”

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Judges: Tsukiyama, Wirtz, Lewis, Hewitt, Cassidy

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