5 Or. 125 | Or. | 1873
By the Court,
In order to determine whether the court was in error in giving or refusing the several instructions asked, it is necessary to interpret the contract or contracts as set up in the pleadings and established by the evidence. The appellants contend that the contract of Harker with Hayden, Smith & Co., and the contract between Harker and the appellants, including the deed from Harker to appellants for the land
The instructions refused had no reference to the facts submitted to the jury under this construction of the contracts. It is not error for a court to refuse to instruct abstract propositions of law, however correct, or to instruct as to a hypothetical case upon which the jury is not called upon to pass.
Judgment affirmed.