Ace, Inc. v. Maynard

GREENE, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, N.C.G.S. § 1A-1, Rule 50, filed 9 April 1991.

The evidence in the record before this Court establishes that in January, 1989, defendant Unified Technologies of Texas, Inc. (Unified) marketed for sale a used Beechcraft Baron airplane through Trade-A-Plane, an aviation advertising journal. Plaintiff, through its sole shareholder, Winston-Salem attorney Thompson Comerford (Comerford), contacted defendant Ken Gedney (Gedney), the broker for the airplane, at Gedney’s office in Dallas, Texas. During that and subsequent…