Opinion ID: 2160337
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Heading: Claims of the McDaniel Plaintiffs.

Text: Both the Aytes plaintiffs and the McDaniel plaintiffs assign as error the trial court's overruling of objections to a jury instruction pertaining to the legal significance of the alleged failure of the State to comply with the requirements specified in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Our examination of the record reveals that the district court believed Iowa Code section 668.10(1) (1985) exempted the State from liability on the McDaniel claims based on failure to install adequate warning devices. This conclusion was premised on the fact that, although the Aytes' claims against the State were filed before July 1, 1984, the McDaniels' actions were filed after that date. See Metier v. Cooper Transp. Co., 378 N.W.2d 907, 911 (Iowa 1985) (provisions of section 668.10(1) applicable to all cases filed on or after July 1, 1984). In instructing on the claims of the McDaniel plaintiffs, the trial court did not submit any issues involving failure of the State to install adequate signs, edge-line striping, or other warning devices. The only assignment of error urged on appeal by the McDaniel plaintiffs concerns an instruction on an issue not submitted to the jury in their cases. They make no claim that the failure to submit that issue was error. Under these circumstances, any infirmity in the challenged instruction lacks any legal significance with respect to McDaniels' right to recover. We therefore affirm the judgment on the McDaniels' claims and only consider the instruction issue as it affects the Aytes plaintiffs.