Case Name: Low v. Deiner
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1887-05-14
Citations: 111 Ind. 46
Docket Number: No. 12,891
Parties: Low v. Deiner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 111
Pages: 46–47

Head Matter:
No. 12,891.
Low v. Deiner.
Instructions to Jury.—Supreme Court.—Evidence Not in Record.—Where the evidence is not in the record, the Supreme Court can not say that instructions given or refused were erroneous.
From the Pulaski Circuit Court.
N. L. Agnew and B. Borders, for appellant.
W. Spangler, H. A. Steis and B. S. B. Stamats, for appellee.

Opinion:
Elliott, C. J.
The questions argued by the appellant's counsel arise on the ruling denying a new trial, but the argument is unavailing, for the reason that the evidence is not in the record.
It is incumbent on the appellant to affirmatively show that the trial court erred in refusing instructions, and this can not be done in such a case as this unless the evidence is in the' record, for we can not say that they were not properly refused because not applicable to the evidence; nor can we say, in the absence of the evidence, that the instructions given were erroneous, for there might have been a case under the issues in which they would have been entirely proper. New v. New, 95 Ind. 366.
Filed May 14, 1887.
Judgment affirmed.