Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Royal Palm Soap Co.

Citations

• 80 Fla. 800
• 86 So. 835

Syllabus

<p>1. Charges given to the jury should conform to the evidence adduced in the case and the evidence should not only preponderate in favor of the verdict, but the evidence should produce in the minds of the jury a reasonable belief of the facts essential to the verdict.</p> <p>2. Judges are not authorized or required to give charges or instructions to juries on abstract questions of law not pertinent to the case before the court, and having no relation thereto.</p> <p>3. Charges should state the law of the case correctly, and should be predicated upon the facts in proof, and when predicated upon a statement of facts contrary to the uncontradicted and undisputed proofs in the case they are erroneous.</p> <p>4. Charges of the court to juries must be confined to the issues and must be predicated upon facts in proof.</p> <p>5. Abstract charges that do not conform to the evidence adduced, may be harmful error when the evidence does not certainly warrant a reasonable belief of the facts essential to sustain the verdict named.</p>