Burrow v. Jones

ARNOLD, Judge.

Plaintiff contends the court erred in granting defendants’ motion for a directed verdict. In considering a motion for a directed verdict, the trial court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-movant, deeming all evidence which tends to support his position to be true, resolving all evidentiary conflicts favorably to him and giving him the benefit of all inferences reasonably to be drawn in his favor. Daughtry v. Turnage, 295 N.C. 543, 246 S.E. 2d 788 (1978); Ryder v. Benfield, 43 N.C. App. 278, 258 S.E. 2d 849 (1979).

The trial court in this case…