Case Name: Y. ALAU vs. W. C. PARKE
Court: Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii
Jurisdiction: Hawaii
Decision Date: 1883-07-06
Citations: 5 Haw. 2
Docket Number: 
Parties: Y. ALAU vs. W. C. PARKE.
Judges: Judd, C. J., and Austin, J. McCully, J., absent.
Reporter: Hawaii Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 2–2

Head Matter:
Y. ALAU vs. W. C. PARKE.
Exceptions prom: Ruling op Austin, J.
July Term, 1883.
Judd, C. J., and Austin, J. McCully, J., absent.
In an action for false imprisonment the Court refused defendant’s request to find on the question of probable cause, but left the same to the Jury ; held to be error, and a new trial ordered. Ah Cheu vs. Wong Kuai, 3 Hawaiian, 85, followed.
W. JR. Castle, for plaintiff.
JE. Preston, for defendant.
Honolulu, July 6, 1883.

Opinion:
Opinion op the Court by
Austin, J.
This case was an action for false imprisonment tried by a jury before Mr. Justice Austin at the April term of the Court. The judgment rendered was in favor of plaintiff.
The Court, upon the defendant's request to find upon the facts whether there was probable cause for the arrest, which was proved, refused so to find, but submitted that question to the jury.
Upon the authority of Ah Cheu vs. Wong Kuai, 3d Hawaiian Reports, p. 85, which escaped the attention of the Court below, we think this was error, and the judgment is therefore reversed and a new trial ordered.