Stringer v. Cooper

NEARN, Judge.

The question is whether or not the Trial Court was correct in granting the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of the plaintiff’s proof, the defendants having elected not to adduce proof.

It is the duty of this Court in reviewing the Trial Court’s action on a motion for a directed verdict to look to all of the evidence, take the strongest legitimate view of it in favor of the opponent of the motion, and to allow all reasonable inferences from it in his favor, and to discard all countervailing evidence. If then there is any dispute as to any material…