· 7/11/1961
Mitchell v. Branch
Citations
- 363 P.2d 969
- 45 Haw. 128
- 1961 Haw. LEXIS 65
How courts have described this case
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- 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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