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· 12/23/1998

James Ex Rel. James v. Burlington Northern, Inc.

Citations

  • 587 N.W.2d 462
  • 1998 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 292
  • 1998 WL 889362

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a party, having unsuccessfully moved for a directed verdict, was “not required, in order to preserve error, to also object to the instructions”
  • dismissing a plaintiff’s loss of consortium claim, although not explicitly, after finding the defendant was not liable on the underlying claims
  • dismissing plaintiffs loss of consortium claim against defendant after defendant held not liable
  • dismissing plaintiffs loss of consortium claim against defendant after defendant held not liable
  • failure to object to instructions is not an abandonment of position taken on pretrial rulings that form the basis for instructions
  • failure to object to instructions is not an abandonment of position taken on pretrial rulings that form the basis for instructions

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Judges: Harris, Larson, Carter, Neuman, Ternus

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