Honsinger v. Egan

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a party is only “entitled to have jury instructions that address his or her theory of the case so long as that theory is supported both by law and fact”
• “[W]e will approve a trial court’s decision to not give an instruction that is duplicative of instructions already given.”
• “In a civil trial, the burden is on the parties to furnish the trial court with proper and appropriate instructions that address their respective theories of the case.”
• “The purpose of jury instructions ‘is to fully and fairly inform the jury as to the law of the case applicable to the particular facts, and not to confuse them.’” (quoting H. W. Miller Trucking Co. v. Flood, 203 Va. 934, 936, 128 S.E.2d 437, 439 (1962))
• no duty in civil cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).