Mazza v. Huffaker

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendant’s first assignment of error brought forth in his brief is that “[t]he court erred in denying defendants’ motions for directed verdict and judgment notwithstanding [the] verdict on the malpractice claim for reason that no act of professional malpractice was shown by plaintiffs evidence.”

In passing upon a defendant’s motion for directed verdict, the plaintiff’s “evidence must be taken as true, . . . and [the motion] may be granted only if, as a matter of law, the evidence is insufficient to justify a verdict for the plaintiffs.” Dickinson v. Pake, 284 N.C. 576, 583, 201…