Husketh v. Convenient Systems, Inc.

COPELAND, Justice.

The principal issue raised on this appeal is the propriety of the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict against the plaintiff. For the reasons set out below, we have determined that this was error; therefore, the decision of the Court of Appeals must be reversed.

It is elementary that, in considering a defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, the court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, resolving all conflicts in his favor and giving the plaintiff the benefit of every inference that reasonably can be drawn in his favor. Summey v.…