Hay v. Carolina &c. Railway Co.

Citations

• 41 S.C. 542
• 19 S.E. 976
• 1894 S.C. LEXIS 136

Syllabus

<p>1. -CiiARCiiNe Juries — Requests.—Where the proposition of law requested by appellant was substantially charged, the appellant has no ground for complaint.</p> <p>2. Ibid. — Ibid.—In instructing the jury that they should not be governed by sympathy, but must decide the case according to the law as charged and the evidence-as they heard it, the trial judge in substance charged the jury that they must not be influenced by outside influence.</p> <p>3. Ibid. — Ibid.—Extraneous Pacts. — There being no evidence of any gathering of the friends of the plaintiff about the court house, giving open expression of their opinion, the trial judge properly refused to charge, as requested, that such conduct was improper.</p>