Rice v. Wood

EAGLES, Judge.

I

Defendants first assign error to the trial court’s denial of their motions for directed verdict made at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence and all the evidence. By introducing evidence, defendants waived their motion made at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence. Overman v. Products Co., 30 N.C. App. 516, 227 S.E. 2d 159 (1976). We therefore consider only the trial court’s denial of defendants’ motion made at the close of all the evidence. Defendants contend that the evidence presented conclusively shows that the transac tion was an absolute sale with a contract or option to…