Opinion ID: 2227503
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Heading: Specifications of the City's Negligence

Text: The District additionally requested an instruction that would have informed the jury about the nature of the City's claim for contribution against it, and would have set forth different specifications of negligence under which the City had admitted liability. The District complains the jury was only instructed that the City admitted its liability. In the absence of an instruction setting forth the manner in which the City was negligent, the District contends the jury was unable to properly and accurately compare the City's fault with that of the District. See, e.g., Schwennen v. Abell, 471 N.W.2d 880, 886 (Iowa 1991). Without deciding whether the district court should have given such an instruction, we find that any error was not prejudicial. The basis of the City's liability Sergeant Wilson's action in leaving the golf cart unattended with the key in the ignitionwas clear from the evidence. We are convinced the jury had no difficulty in comparing the fault of the parties without the instruction.