Abell v. Nash County Board of Education

GREENE, Judge.

This is a civil action in which plaintiffs seek actual and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief. They allege defendant Nash County Board of Education’s nonrenewal of their teaching contracts was an “arbitrary and capricious” action. At the conclusion of plaintiffs’ evidence, the trial court granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. Plaintiffs appeal to this Court.

A motion for directed verdict pursuant to Rule 50(a) of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, N.C.G.S. Sec. 1A-1 (1983), presents a question of whether plaintiffs’ evidence was sufficient to…