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JOHNSON v. KNOXVILLE COMMUNITY SCH. DIST.11/26/1997
a Code section 668.3(8), at the new trial the jury should be given verdict forms that properly connect the issue of proximate cause to each item of damage claimed by the plaintiffs. To do this the following question should be asked:
Q. State the amount of damages sustained by the plaintiff that was proximately caused by the defendant's fault as to each of the following items of claimed damage. If the plaintiff has failed to prove that an item of damage was proximately caused by defendant's fault, enter zero for that item.
The jury will thus be able to find as to each of plaintiffs' claims whether proximate cause has been proved and the amount of damages, if any, resulting.
Costs on appeal are taxed to defendant.
REVERSED AND REMANDED FOR NEW TRIAL.
All justices concur except TERNUS, J., who takes no part. [570 NW2d Page 643]
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