COKER v. ABELL-HOWE CO.

No. 91-836.

491 N.W.2d 143 (1992)

Bobby G. COKER and Jacqueline Anne Coker, Appellants, v. ABELL-HOWE COMPANY and Ernest Moore, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied October 23, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Nicholson of White & Johnson, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

Matthew J. Petrzelka, James M. Peters and Gilda L. Boyer of Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, Cedar Rapids, for appellees.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, NEUMAN and SNELL, JJ.


SNELL, Justice.

This appeal by plaintiffs is from an adverse jury verdict in a negligence action. Plaintiff Bobby G. Coker was injured when struck in the head by a steel bar being used by a coworker. The jury determined that Coker was sixty-five percent at fault while defendants Abell-Howe Company and Ernest Moore, the coworker, were thirty-five percent at fault.

Plaintiffs, Bobby G. Coker and Jacqueline A. Coker, appeal from the trial court's jury instructions...

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