Purdy v. Momrow

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered ^ March 3, 1975 in Rensselaer County, in favor of the plaintiff upon the-oral grant of a motion by the plaintiff at the close of her case for a directed verdict and upon the direction of the court upon its own motion of a severance of the third-party action and a new trial therein. In order to grant a motion for a directed verdict, the court must find that there was no rational process by which the jury could have found for the adverse party. (See Parvi v City of Kingston, 51 AD2d 846.) The record establishes that the third-party defendant,…