EX PARTE JORDAN

86-1052.

532 So.2d 1252 (1988)

Ex parte J. Wendell JORDAN (Re FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK v. J. Wendell JORDAN).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied July 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. McWhorter, Jr., of Buttram & McWhorter, Centre, for petitioner.

W. Eugene Rutledge and Kay S. Kelly, Birmingham, for respondent.


JONES, Justice.

We granted review in this conversion case to clarify when a requested jury charge in a civil case needs to be in writing, as opposed to when an orally requested charge is sufficient. The Court of Civil Appeals, holding that the trial court had erred in refusing to give a jury charge requested by Farmers and Merchants Bank ("Bank") on the Bank's affirmative defense of ratification, reversed a judgment based on a jury verdict for the petitioner, J. Wendell...

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