168 W. Va. 237 - Donta v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 157 W. Va. 391 - Wager v. Sine · 138 W. Va. 861 - Davis v. Sargent · 157 W. Va. 724 - Higginbotham v. City of Charleston · 153 W. Va. 506 - Ellison v. Wood & Bush Company · 142 W. Va. 772 - Adkins v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
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“Instructions must be read as a whole, and if, when so read, it is apparent they could not have misled the jury, the verdict will not be disturbed, though one of said instructions which is not a binding instruction may have been susceptible of a doubtful construction while standing alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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