Froman v. Perrin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• abrogating rule that in absence of eyewitness, plaintiff was rebutt-ably presumed to be free of contributory negligence; aid of presumption no longer necessary now that defendant has burden of proof on issue of plaintiff’s contributory negligence
• “If no objection is taken, the instruction, right or wrong, becomes the law of the case.”
• “the real criterion [for the adequacy of an objection to jury instruction to preserve error] is whether the objection alerted the trial court to the claimed error.”
• “To be adequate an objection [to a jury instruction] must advise the court of the basis for complaint and the real criterion is whether the objection alerted the trial court to the claimed error. Even a defective objection may accomplish that purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).