Opinion ID: 388125
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Refused Instructions on Defense

Text: 36 Hubly's contention that the district court should have charged the jury regarding waiver, estoppel, and laches is equally unavailing. Those defenses require proof of specific elements, consisting primarily of actions or omissions by B-E giving rise to those defenses. No such elements are present in the evidence of record, Hubly's sole reliance being on B-E's failure to demand his personal guarantee. That failure was not a knowing relinquishment of the right to redress of harms caused by Hubly's subsequent misconduct. To effectively charge a trial court with failure to provide an instruction, one must first show the presence of evidence in the record sufficient to support submission of that instruction. Lopez v. Southern Pacific Co., 499 F.2d 767 (10th Cir. 1974); General Motors Corp. v. Walden, 406 F.2d 606 (10th Cir. 1969). Absent such evidence, nothing is present upon which the court could have based the refused instructions.