Can an instruction in a civil case be interpreted as an error in law?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Wayne v. Byrens, B227575 (Cal. App. 2012):

challenged instruction below, we may examine whether it constituted an "error in law" warranting a new trial. ( 657; McCarty v. Department of Transportation (2008) 164 Cal.App.4th 955, 983-984.)

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