Powers v. Gowen

How courts have described this case

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

• “[w]here an instruction submits a question to the jury in a broad, abstract way without being limited to any issues of fact or law developed in the case, it may be considered a ‘roving commission’”
• erroneous instruction asked jury to find if \defendant wrongfully demolished the building\ without identifying what \acts or omissions on the part of the [defendant] might be considered to have rendered the demolition of the building wrongful.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).