Legal Opinion

Stover v. Lakeland Square Owners Ass'n

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided January 25, 1989No. 87-1265PublishedCited by 54 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

NEUMAN, Justice.

This appeal stems from a jury verdict entered against defendant Lakeland Square Owners Association (Lakeland) in a slip- and-fall case brought by plaintiff Dorothy Stover. Aside from its claim that the verdict is unsupported by the evidence, Lake-land’s primary contention is that the trial court should have given an instruction on the nontaxability of damage awards and that the court’s failure to do so entitles Lakeland to a new trial. Because we decide today that a trial court need not give a nontaxability instruction, and that Lake-land’s other assignments of error are…

2Cases cited69 opinions

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  3. Turner v. General Motors Corp.Texas Supreme Court · 1979
  4. Sharon Hageman, Admx. Of the Estate of Donald Hageman v. Signal L. P. Gas, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1973
  5. Rudolph v. Iowa Methodist Medical CenterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1980

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3Cited by54 opinions

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