Hughes v. Burlington Northern Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when an offer of judgment is silent as to prejudgment interest, the court will not add it because the precise amount of interest would be indeterminable
• noting deposition costs that are taxable from a failure to accept an offer to confess judgment are limited to those allowed under Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 157(a), now numbered rule 1.716
• “The award of interest is mandatory and should be awarded even when interest has not been requested.”
• stating plaintiff-motorist was injured in a collision with a train

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