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FAIRFIELD v. MEDEIROS

No. 4457.

50 Haw. 73 (1967)

431 P.2d 296

JAMES GUY FAIRFIELD v. CLARA TEXEIRA MEDEIROS AND ALVIN EMORY MEDEIROS, AND EDWIN P. MURRAY, FRANK E. MIDKIFF, ATHERTON RICHARDS, RICHARD LYMAN, JR., HERBERT K. KEPPELER (Trustees under the Will and of the Estate of Bernice P. Bishop, Deceased).

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

August 25, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Thomas Rice for defendants-appellants.

Robert A. Franklin for plaintiff-appellee.

RICHARDSON, C.J., MIZUHA, MARUMOTO, ABE AND CIRCUIT JUDGE CORBETT IN PLACE OF LEVINSON, J., DISQUALIFIED.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY MIZUHA, J.

The principal question raised by this appeal is whether there is sufficient evidence to support the imposition of a constructive trust on a leasehold estate assigned by plaintiff-appellee, James Guy Fairfield, to defendants-appellants, Clara Texeira Medeiros and Alvin Emory Medeiros.

Defendant Alvin Medeiros and plaintiff first became acquainted in 1951 or 1952 when plaintiff's construction company hired defendant Medeiros...

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