REDEVELOPMENT COM'N OF CITY OF DURHAM v. Holman

MARTIN, Judge.

Petitioner contends that the trial court erred in allowing respondents’ motion for a remittitur and refusing to grant the petitioner’s motion for a new trial.

While it is generally stated that the judgment should follow the verdict, Bethea v. Kenly, 261 N.C. 730, 136 S.E. 2d 38 (1964), the court has the power to reduce the verdict of its own motion so long as the party in whose favor it was rendered does not object. Cohoon v. Cooper, 186 N.C. 26, 118 S.E. 834 (1923). See Caudle v. Swanson, 248 N.C. 249, 103 S.E. 2d 357 (1958). This practice of remittitur with the successful…