Worthington v. Bynum

BECTON, Judge.

Plaintiffs phrased their sole question for review thusly: “Did the trial court err in granting defendant’s motion to set aside the jury’s verdicts in favor of each plaintiff and in failing to enter order denying said motion and in refusing to enter judgment in favor of each plaintiff in accordance with the jury’s verdicts?” On the facts of this case, the answer to the question is “yes.”

We are not unmindful of the long line of cases suggesting that few, if any, legal principles are more firmly entrenched in the law of this State than the one which vests a trial judge with the…