Case ID: me_33/html/0360-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Osgood versus Lansil.
   The Court is not bound, unless requested, to give instruction as to the legal correctness of a proposition urged by counsel to the jury.

Where evidence had been given in support of a set-off claim, and a general verdict was rendered for the defendant, (without showing whether the plaintiff had failed to establish any claim or whether his demand -was balanced by the set-olf,) there is no right in the plaintiff to except, that the Judge did not give instruction to the jury in relation to the cost; unless such instruction was requested.

Where the Judge refers to the jury a question of law, which he ought himself to decide, there is no ground for exceptions, if it be decided correctly by the jury.