DeHart v. R/S FINANCIAL CORP.

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is the second appeal of this case to this Court. In the first appeal this Court held that the trial court improperly granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. DeHart v. R/S Financial Corp., 66 N.C. App. 648, 311 S.E. 2d 694 (1984) (hereinafter DeHart I).

On retrial of the case plaintiff presented evidence which tended to show the following: In 1965, plaintiff and her late husband Clarence D. DeHart owned land in Bryson City upon which they wanted to build a house. On 24 February 1965, Nathaniel Coleman, the stepson of plaintiff, carried Mr. and Mrs. DeHart to…