WATSON v. BROWN

No. 9564.

686 P.2d 12 (1984)

Noel WATSON and the Depot, Inc., a Hawaii Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ronald A. BROWN, General Partner of World Square, a Hawaii Limited Partnership, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

August 10, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary N. Hagerman, Kailua-Kona (Gregory L. Lui-Kwan, Kailua-Kona, with him on the briefs; Lyons, Hagerman & Brandt, Kailua-Kona, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Lawrence W. Cohn, Kailua-Kona (Cohn, Smith & Seiter, Kailua-Kona, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before LUM, C.J., and NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ.


HAYASHI, Justice.

This is an appeal from a trial court's summary judgment decision ruling out self-help eviction in a commercial lease, and from the trial court's decision to treble a $12,000 general damages award in the subsequent jury trial to $36,000 under antitrust law. We reverse, holding that summary judgment was improper, as was the application of antitrust law.

On October 4, 1972, plaintiffs-appellees Noel Watson, dba The Depot, Inc. entered into a...

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