Opinion ID: 1608539
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Additional Jury Instructions Requested by Broadlawns.

Text: Broadlawns argues that a number of jury instructions or interrogatories were impermissibly excluded from submission to the jury. We have previously observed that [r]equested instructions that are not related to the factual issues to be decided by the jury should not be submitted even though they may set out a correct statement of the law. Vachon v. Broadlawns Med. Found., 490 N.W.2d 820, 822 (1992). Moreover, [t]he submission of instructions upon issues that have no support in the evidence is error. Id. However, [e]rror in giving or refusing to give an instruction does not warrant reversal unless the error is prejudicial. Id. Broadlawns believes it was entitled to jury instructions on sole proximate cause and Jillene's knowledge of the danger posed by Gerald as well as special interrogatories relating to the jury's consideration of the details of the promise provided to Jillene. As we have explained, both the sole proximate cause issue and the knowledge of danger issue were correctly decided by the district court. Accordingly, the district court's decision to exclude instructions on those issues was also correct. We also do not believe that the court committed reversible error by excluding the special interrogatories suggested by Broadlawns. Although the interrogatories may have clarified some matters before the jury, the exclusion of the requested interrogatories was not prejudicial to Broadlawns. See id.