Tanglewood Land Co., Inc. v. Wood

CARLTON, Judge.

Defendants assign as error the denial by the trial court of their motions for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s evidence and at the close of all the evidence, and the denial of their post-verdict motions for a new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

Directed verdicts are appropriate only in jury cases. Bryant v. Kelly, 279 N.C. 123, 181 S.E. 2d 438 (1971). In nonjury civil cases, the appropriate motion by which a defendant may test the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s evidence to show a right to relief is a motion for involuntary dismissal under G.S.…