Commercial Bank of Jasper v. Dasher
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Levy and claim; from city court of Yaldosta—Judge Cranford. March 21, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, P. J.
Instructions not authorized by the pleadings or evidence, even though presenting correct principles of law, should not be given; and if by the instructions the jury might reasonably be drawn away from the true issues in dispute to the prejudice of parties, the giving in charge of such inapplicable principles would be reversible error (Long v. Gilbert, 133 Ga. 691, 69, 66 S. E. 894; Lazenby v. Citizens Bank, 20 Ga. App. 53, 59 (5), 72 S. E. 391); but where, as in this case, the irrelevant charge could not reasonably be said to have possibly prejudiced the rights, of the complaining party, and…
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