Anderson v. Webster City Community School District

How courts have described this case

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• holding in a civil case the trial court commits prejudicial error when an instruction “materially misstates the law, confuses or misleads the jury, or is unduly emphasized”
• noting reversal warranted “when the trial court’s instruction materially misstates the law, confuses or misleads the jury, or is unduly emphasized”
• noting an instruction that amounted to a comment on the evidence did not warrant reversal when clarified by a subsequent instruction
• noting an instruction that amounted to a comment on the evidence did not warrant reversal when clarified by a subsequent instruction
• noting an instruction that amounted to a comment on the evidence did not warrant reversal when clarified by a subsequent instruction
• finding instructions did not mislead jury but noting that “[p]rejudice results when the trial court’s instruction materially misstates the law, confuses or misleads the jury or is unduly emphasized”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).