Meyer v. City of Des Moines

LAVORATO, Justice.

The defendants appeal from jury verdicts in a bifurcated trial arising out of a person*183al injury action. The defendants raise issues concerning jury instructions, sufficiency of the evidence, and taxation of costs. We reverse and remand for new trial on liability only because of errors in several instructions.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

On March 23, 1987, fifteen-year-old David Lee Meyer was returning home from a friend’s house on a moped. His moped collided with a garbage truck owned by the city of Des Moines. Don Willis Prugh was driving the truck.

Just before the…