McGirr v. Shifflet

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court properly did not instruct on contract and quantum meruit theories because they were not raised in pleadings
• “[t]he trial court need charge only on those points of law that arise pursuant to the claims of proof advanced by the parties in their pleadings”
• instruction provided necessary guidance to jury because issue was implicit in instructional language

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).