Poniros v. Nello L. Teer Co.

72 S.E.2d 9 (1952)

236 N.C. 144

PONIROS et al.

v.

NELLO L. TEER CO.

No. 750.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 22, 1952.

C. S. Hammond, Durham, and L. J. Phipps, Chapel Hill, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Fuller, Reade, Umstead & Fuller, and W. P. Farthing, Durham, for defendant, appellee.

JOHNSON, Justice.

The plaintiffs' first group of exceptive assignments of error relate to the refusal of the trial court to allow their motions to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial upon the ground that the verdict is contrary to the greater weight of the evidence.

These motions were directed to the sound…