Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Jordan

JONES, Justice.

We granted review in this conversion case to clarify when a requested jury charge in a civil case needs to be in writing, as opposed to when an orally requested charge is sufficient. The Court of Civil Appeals, holding that the trial court had erred in refusing to give a jury charge requested by Farmers and Merchants Bank (“Bank”) on the Bank’s affirmative defense of ratification, reversed a judgment based on a jury verdict for the petitioner, J. Wendell Jordan, and remanded the cause to the trial court, 532 So.2d 1249. We reverse the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals.

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