Westbrook v. Cobb

WALKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sets forth five assignments of error in his brief. Of these we need only to consider the first assignment, which is whether the trial court erred in entering a directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs evidence in favor of the defendant on the grounds plaintiff did not establish the requisite elements of a negligence action. Specifically, we find plaintiff failed to prove the essential element of proximate cause, and the trial court did not err in directing a verdict for defendant.

A directed verdict should be granted only in those situations where the evidence,…