Opinion ID: 1994680
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The refusal to instruct in accordance with plaintiffs' requested instruction.

Text: The plaintiffs requested the trial judge to give specifically worded instructions to the jury (1) upon loss of consortium by the husband plaintiff; (2) on sympathy for or against the parties, and (3) on the duty of the plaintiff wife to undergo surgery. It is true that the trial judge did not give the precise instructions requested by the plaintiffs on loss of consortium and on sympathy for the parties. He did, however, instruct the jury upon those two subjects adequately and correctly. Since a party has no right to demand a particular instruction in particular language, no error results from a refusal to so charge when the instructions given are correct statements of the law. The plaintiff wife requested that the jury be instructed that she had no obligation to undergo surgery in order to minimize damages. The trial judge refused to do so. We think the trial judge was correct in so doing. No contention was made on the defendant's behalf that Mrs. Chavin had an obligation to have surgery so as to minimize her damages. This being the fact, the requested instruction would have been meaningless. There was no error in denying it.