Leonard v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance

The defendant introduced no evidence and at the close of plaintiff’s evidence made a motion in the court below for judgment as in case of nonsuit. The court below overruled the motion, and in this we can see no error. The evidence which makes for plaintiff’s claim, or tends to support his cause of action, is to be taken in its most favorable light for the plaintiff, and he is entitled to the benefit of every reasonable intendent upon the evidence, and every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom.

In Bulluck v. Ins. Co., 200 N. C., 642, Brogden, J., after citing many authorities, says, at…