Case ID: ind_7/html/0137-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Johnson and Others v. Vuthrick.
    Where the Court has given an erroneous instruction which is applicable to the issues, it will be presumed to have had an influence, unless the contrary is shown; but where the Court has refused an instruction, it will be presumed ■ to have been refused as being inapplicable to the evidence, unless the contrary appears.
    APPEAL from the Montgomery Circuit Court.
    
      Saturday, December 1.
    
      JR. C. Gregory, JR. Jones, J. E. McDonald, J. Wilson and L. Wallace, for the appellants.
    
      H. S. Lane, S. C. Willson, E. A. Hanmegan and D. W. Voorhees, for the appellees.
   Per Curiam.

This case falls precisely within that of Taber v. Hutson, 5 Ind. R. 322, and must be reversed.

It is said that as the evidence is not upon the record, we can not say but that the judgment is right upon it, notwithstanding the verdict was found under the influence of an erroneous instruction. But the rule is, that where the Court gives an erroneous instruction, applicable to the issues, it will be presumed to have had an influence, unless the contrary be shown; but where the Court refuses an instruction, the contrary not being shown, it will be presumed to have been refused because not applicable to evidence given in the cause.

The judgment is reversed with costs. Cause remanded, &c.