Isbell v. Lennox

(after stating the facts as above).

It appears from the record that appellants objected, hut did not state the grounds of their objection, to certain instructions the trial court gave to the jury. A general objection is not a compliance with the requirement of the statute (article 1971, Vernon’s Sayles’ Civ. St. 1914) that objections a party has to instructions shall be presented to the court before such instructions are read to the jury. The plain purpose of the statute, said Chief Justice Phillips, in Walker v. Haley (Sup.) 214 S. W. 295—

“is to provide the court, in advance, with the…