This section is from the book "American Law Of Real Estate Agency", by William Slee Walker. Also available from Amazon: American law of real estate agency.
Instructions must be in conformity with the evidence adduced in the case, and instructions which impliedly assume the existence of evidence which was not given are erroneous. Leech v. demons, 14 Colo. App. 45, 59 P. 230; Davis v. Morgan, 96 Ga. 518, 23 S. E. 417; Games v. Howard, 180 Mass. 569, 63 N. E. 122; Gadigan v. Crabtree, 179 Mass. 474, 61 N. E. 37, 55 L. R. A. 77; Hughes v. McGullough, 39 Ore. 372, 65 P. 85; Taylor v. Cox (Tex. Supreme '91), 16 S. W. 1063; Lawson v. Thomp-766 son, 10 Utah, 462, 37 P. 732. Instruction not objectionable as submitting an issue not pleaded. Baldwin v. Smith (Tex. Civ. App. '09), 119 S. W. 111.
 
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