Opinion ID: 2216158
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Heading: Failure to Adjudicate Defendants' Negligence as a Matter of Law.

Text: Plaintiff argues that the district court erred in not adjudicating defendants' negligence as a matter of law in ruling on plaintiff's pretrial motion for summary judgment. We do not reach the merits of this contention. This court has consistently held that errors against a party are cured by a verdict in that party's favor unless the error was prejudicial with respect to the amount of recovery. Mills v. Guthrie County Rural Elec. Coop., 454 N.W.2d 846, 848 (Iowa 1990); Nassif v. Pipkin, 178 N.W.2d 334, 337 (Iowa 1970); Edgren v. Scandia Coal Co., 171 Iowa 459, 474, 151 N.W. 519, 524-25 (1915). It might be otherwise if the appeal resulted in a new trial in which the same question might again arise with respect to the defendants' liability. In the present case, however, the grant of new trial is limited to the issue of damages, and liability will not be revisited.