Case Name: John Reilly, Respondent, v. The Third Avenue Railroad Co., Appellant
Court: New York City Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-11
Citations: 14 Misc. 445
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Reilly, Respondent, v. The Third Avenue Railroad Co., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 445–446

Head Matter:
John Reilly, Respondent, v. The Third Avenue Railroad Co., Appellant.
(City Court of New York
General Term,
November, 1895.)
The court is bound only to charge such propositions as are applicable to. • the facts of the case, and, therefore, has a right to refuse to charge a correct proposition of law when it has no béaring on the case.
Appeal from judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon a verdict.
UoacLT/y, Lauterbach & Johnson, for appellant.
O. S. Garothers, for respondent.

Opinion:
McCarthy, J.
The questions of fact were properly submitted to the jury and the charge of the trial justice on the law was clear and if anything more favorable to the defendant. There is no such rule requiring the trial justice to> charge every request asked for by counsel on a given subject of the law. The court is- bound only to charge such proposi tions as are applicable to the facts in the case before it, and,, therefore, has a right to refuse to charge a correct proposition. Of .law when it has no bearing on the case.
We d,o not. find any substantial error, and the judgment must be affirmed, with costs. .•
Fitzsimóns, J., concurs. •
. Judgment affirmed, with costs.