Case ID: haw_6/html/0304-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judd, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HING YEE vs. CHUNG WA.
    Assumpsit.
    Before Judd, J.
    November, 1881.
    Under §820, Civil Code, a Justice of the Supreme Court, who has heard a case in the Intermediary Court, cannot hear the case again in the Supreme Court on appeal without a jury, and the objection cannot be waived by parties.
    
      Castle & Hatch, for plaintiff.
    
      A. S. Hartwell, for defendants.
    Honolulu, November 5th, 1881.
   Decision of

Judd, J.

This case, and two others identical in character against the defendant, were tried by me in the Intermediary Court on the 23d June, and judgment rendered for plaintiff in each case for $45 and costs.

The jury was waived in this Court, and the case, after some further documentary evidence was introduced, was argued and submitted to me for judgment. The law (Sec. 820 of the Civil Code) which forbids a Court or judge from sitting alone on a case on appeal in which he has given a previous judgment, disqualifies me from making a judgment in the Supreme Court, for I do not think such an objection can be waived by parties. The judgment of the Intermediary Court must therefore stand, unless the parties shall choose to take these cases again before another judge of this Court at term.