Rhiner v. City of Clive

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Timothy Rhiner was shot by defendant James Edward McMahon, a policeman for the defendant city of Clive. Rhiner appeals from the judgment based on jury verdicts for defendants. He raises a number of issues relating to discovery, evidentiary rulings, instructions, and jury misconduct. We affirm.

At trial ample evidence was produced from which the jury could have found the following facts. Rhiner spent July 30, 1980, working at the Golden Slipper, his father’s bar in Waukee, Iowa. That evening he and his cousin, Bob Olson, drove to Winterset and several…