Johnson v. JP Stevens & Co., Inc.

Toal, Justice:

Johnson brought this action claiming his employer, J.P. Stevens & Co., terminated him in retaliation for filing a Workers’ Compensation Claim. The issue presented on appeal is whether under Rule 41(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure the master-in-equity is required to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff in granting the defendant’s motion for dismissal at the end of the plaintiffs case. We hold the master is allowed to weigh the evidence at this point and affirm.

Johnson was hired by J.P. Stevens on August 5, 1988. At that time, Johnson…