Opinion ID: 1805073
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Heading: Instructions on Plaintiff's Comparative Fault.

Text: Plaintiff argues that the trial court erred in submitting instructions on her comparative fault to the jury. Error in giving an instruction does not require reversal unless the error is prejudicial. Gore v. Smith, 464 N.W.2d 865, 868 (Iowa 1991). In Gore, we held that any alleged error in a damage instruction could not have prejudiced the plaintiff because the plaintiff had failed to establish the liability of the defendants. Id. Likewise, in the present case, plaintiff could not have been prejudiced by the instructions on her comparative fault. This case was submitted to the jury on special interrogatories. The jury found that defendants were not at fault in response to the first question on the verdict form. Consequently, the jury did not answer the interrogatories concerning plaintiff's fault. Therefore, because there could be no prejudice to plaintiff, we need not address her objection to the submission of instructions on her comparative fault.