Hogsed v. Ray

JOHNSON, Judge.

Defendants first call upon us to decide whether the trial court erred in denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict on the grounds that plaintiffs evidence was insufficient to establish actionable negligence as a matter of law. It is a quite familiar rule of civil procedure that:

[A] [motion] [for] [j]udgment notwithstanding the verdict should be granted only when the evidence is insufficient as a matter of law to support the verdict. Where the evidence ad*676mitted at trial, taken in the light most favorable to the non-moving party with all reasonable inferences…