Williams v. General Motors Corporation

BRITT, Judge.

Plaintiff’s sole assignment of error is the granting of the motions for directed verdict. The test of whether the court may grant a motion for directed verdict in favor of a defendant at the close of plaintiff’s evidence is whether, as a matter of law, the evidence is insufficient to justify a verdict for the plaintiff when all the evidence is considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Kelly v. Harvester Co., 278 N.C. 153, 179 S.E. 2d 396 (1971).

Plaintiff’s evidence tended to show: She had borrowed the automobile in question from one James Milton for a trip to…