Nugent v. Waters

Defendant appeals from a judgment for $5,500 entered upon verdict in a case in which plaintiff sought to recover damages for injuries received by the alleged negligent management of defendant’s automobile. The only point presented by the defendant relates to the action of the trial court in declining to consider instructions offered by the defendant and to mark them either “given” or “refused.”

Defendant tendered 14 instructions. The court gave as his reasons for refusing to consider them, that from his experience he knew that many instructions “are duplications, erroneous, and are merely…