ELLIS v. CROCKETT

No. 4706.

451 P.2d 814 (1969)

William S. ELLIS, Jr., Florence A. Ellis, Masaru Sumida, Stanley Unten, Charley Shiraishi v. William F. CROCKETT, Lyman T. Harada, Katsuyo Harada, Stephen T. Harada, and William H. Balthis.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

As Amended and Rehearing Denied March 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Corey, Honolulu, for appellants, except Ellis.

William S. Ellis, Jr., pro se.

William F. Crockett, Crockett & Crockett, Wailuku, Maui, for appellees.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., MARUMOTO, ABE and LEVINSON, JJ., and KING, Circuit Judge, assigned by reason of vacancy.


LEVINSON, Justice.

The seventeen-page complaint in this case is prolix and ambiguous, sometimes contradictory, and often difficult to comprehend. Although there are numerous allegations of fraud, most of which are stated with particularity as required by the Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 9(b), the complaint as a whole is a gross violation of H.R.C.P., Rule 8(e) (1) which...

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