Hutto v. Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance

Brailsford, Justice:

In this action for fraud and deceit in the inception of an insurance contract, the jury awarded plaintiff a verdict for $2,500.00, and the court denied defendant’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto. The defendant has appealed on a single exception, as follows:

“The trial court erred in denying the defendant’s motions for a directed verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, the error being that from all the evidence the only reasonable inference is that the plaintiff failed to establish reasonable reliance upon the truth of the alleged oral…