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DAVIS ET AL. v. GOVERNOR QUINN ET AL.

No. 4130.

43 Haw. 261 (1959)

F. TIP DAVIS, JOSEPH LOVEJOY DWIGHT, SR., V. THOMAS RICE, ROBERT E. CATES, BERNALDO D. BICOY AND ERNEST EDWARD WILES v. WILLAM F. QUINN, GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII, AND EDWARD E. JOHNSTON, SECRETARY OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII, AND DR. SADAICHI KASAMOTO, HANNIBAL TAVARES, WILLIAM HARAKI, JAMES WESTLAKE, CLINTON CHILDS, TADAO OKIMOTO, ELMER S. CRAVALHO, ROBERT W.B. CHANG, ADAM AKANA, KAZUTO YOSHIOKA, YOSHITO TANAKA, HAROLD L. DUPONTE, AND TOSHIO KABUTAN.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Decided May 22, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clinton R. Ashford and C. Nils Tavares (William B. Stephenson, A. James Wriston, Jr., Tobias C. Tolzmann & Maurice Sapienza with them on the briefs) for plaintiffs.

Rhoda V. Lewis and Jon Chinen, Deputy Attorneys General (Henry H. Shigekane & Yoshio Shigezawa, Deputy Attorneys General, with them on the briefs) for defendants.

Harold L. Duponte, intervening defendant, filed a brief in propria persona, but did not argue.

T.S. Goo and Ernest Y. Yamane filed a brief for Yoshito Tanaka, Toshio Kabutan, Ernest Y. Yamane, Morio Omori & T.S. Goo, intervening defendants, but waived argument.

Jack H. Mizuha, Attorney General, present.

RICE, C.J., STAINBACK AND MARUMOTO, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY RICE, C.J., AND STAINBACK, J.

This is a case submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, pursuant to section 227-1, Revised Laws of Hawaii 1955. An actual controversy exists between the parties, as hereinafter stated.

The plaintiffs are citizens, duly registered voters and electors of and in the 8th, 10th and 17th representative districts, in pairs, one of the Republican and the other of the...

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