American Home Products Corp. v. Howell's Motor Freight, Inc.

WELLS, Judge.

In its first assignment of error, defendant argues that the trial court erred in denying its motion for a directed verdict at close of plaintiff’s evidence under G.S. 1A-1, Rule 50(a). This assignment must be overruled. On a motion for directed verdict at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence in a jury case, the evidence must be taken as true and considered in the light most favorable to plaintiff, and the motion may be granted only if, as a matter of law, the evidence is insufficient to justify a verdict for the plaintiff. Dickinson v. Pake, 284 N.C. 576, 201 S.E. 2d 897 (1974).…