Hoomana Naauao O Hawaii ex rel. Maia v. Makekau
Hoomana Naauao O Hawaii ex rel. Maia v. Makekau
Opinion of the Court
The principal question to be determined is Avhat should be the status of a proceeding pending before a circuit judge at chambers where the judgment of that court has been reversed by the supreme court on appeal and the cause remanded generally.
The petitioners, appellees herein, appear to assume
Upon a general remand of a case to a circuit judge at chambers all issues of law and fact except such issues of law as were determined by the appellate court are again before the lower court for trial and determination. The -case is thus opened for the introduction by either side of any and all competent evidence Avhich is pertinent to any of the issues raised by, the pleadings. Of course if the same judge Avho presided in the former trial also presides at the second trial the evidence received at the former trial would ordinarily still be in the mind of the judge or the transcript thereof available to him and it Avould therefore be unnecessary to have that evidence reintroduced at the second hearing. However, should the trial judge at the second hearing deem it necessary or proper to have the evidence taken at the former hearing again adduced it should again be placed in the record. But both parties should be permitted to introduce any other or further material and competent evidence touching any of the issues which they might elect to present. The subject under consideration in its present form has not heretofore been before this court but some of the authorities Avhich indicate the rule which we have adopted are as follows: Bierce v. Waterhouse, 19 Haw. 594, 598; Wall v. Focke, 22 Haw.
Counsel for petitioners-appellees draw attention to the recognized rule that an appellant must specify all of the errors upon which he relies for a reversal of the judgment from which he appeals and that he cannot upon his second appeal be heard to say that there were other errors which he did not specify in his prior appeal. The only exception to this rule is where upon the second appeal there is evidence of a different character in the record. In the present case there has been some additional evidence introduced since the case was here on the former appeal. And aside from that consideration it must be borne in mind that the former appeal was prosecuted by the petitioners, now the appellees, and that this is the first appeal of the present appellants. As was said in Bierce v. Waterhouse (19 Haw. 598), now for the first time the judgment of the circuit court stands against the respondents. Hence the rule relied on by the appellees has no application here.
Counsel for respondents-appellants now urge that because of the state of the present record this court should hold that in the giving of the notice of the convention of July 21,1919, the established custom was not followed and that it should be further held that a legal quorum, as required by the by-laws of the society, was not present at said convention. To this we are unwilling to accede.
The circuit judge at the second hearing unduly curtailed the issues and improperly limited the scope of the evidence proposed to be introduced. It would therefore, in view of the state of the present record, be improper for this court to determine these issues.
We think that the judgment appealed from should be reversed and the cause remanded to the court below for
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- HOOMANA NAAUAO O HAWAII, A CORPORATION, BY J. E. K. MAIA, A. L. NAKEA, D. K. DIAMOND, A. I. BRIGHT, ROBERT AKANA, J. A. HOOKAMA, RICHARD WEEDON, C. L. KEALOHA, F. A. KAKALIA, M. K. KANEIAKALA AND ISAIA POAI v. W. S. J. O. MAKEKAU, J. ISERAELA, L. R. KEKUEWA, MRS. KAHALEWEHI BAKER, G. NICHOLAS, H. PELE, SAMUEL KEANU, ALEX. GEORGE AND W. E. EDMUNDS
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- Trlal — status of oase remanded generally to a circuit judge at chambers. Upon a general remand to a circuit judge at chambers all issues of law and fact except such issues of law as were determined by the appellate court are again before the lower court for trial and determination. Same — same. The cause is thus opened for the introduction by either side of any and all competent evidence which is pertinent to any of the issues raised by the pleadings. If the same judge who presided in the former trial also presides at the second trial the evidence received at the former trial would ordinarily still be in the mind of the judge or the transcript thereof available to him and it would therefore be unnecessary to have the evidence introduced at the second trial. Same — same. Should the trial judge at the second hearing deem it necessary or proper to have the evidence taken at the former hearing again adduced it should again be placed in the record. Same — same. But both parties should be permitted, to introduce any other or further evidence touching any of the issues which they may elect to present.