Southern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Holmes

KNIGHT, Justice.

On the trial of the above-stated cause, the court refused, upon written request of defend ant, to instruct the jury in the language of the following charge: “22. I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that if you are not reasonably satisfied from the evidence that the fraud practiced upon plaintiff, if you find there was fraud, was malicious, oppressive, or gross, and that the representations made were made with a knowledge of their falsity on the part of the defendant’s agent (or so recklessly made as to amount to the same thing), and with the purpose of injuring the plaintiff,…