Johnston Equipment Corp. of Iowa v. Industrial Indemnity

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 successful party need not cross-appeal to preserve error on a ground urged but ignored or rejected in trial court”
• holding that a party need not cross-appeal a trial court’s rejection of a ground urged in the trial court to preserve error on a claim decided in the party’s favor but must still cross-appeal to preserve an issue on a claim decided adversely to the party
• recognizing we can affirm on any basis raised in the district court
• overruling case which required successful party to ask trial court to enlarge its findings to address second basis for recovery
• explaining “a party need not, in fact cannot, appeal from a favorable ruling”
• distinguishing between successful and unsuccessful parties for purposes of error preservation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).