Bowman v. Town of Granite Falls

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Rule 19 of the Rules of Practice in the North Carolina Court of Appeals specifies that the proceedings of the trial court shall be set forth in the record on appeal in the order of the time' in which they occurred, and the processes, orders, and documents in the record on appeal shall follow each other in the order in which they were filed. The record in the case at bar was not properly arranged. Nevertheless, we have decided to reach the merits.

Defendant assigns as error the denial by the trial court of its motion for directed verdict. The stated grounds of the motion were…