Scales v. Tucker

PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiff assigns error to the trial judge’s entry of directed verdict in favor of defendants. The trial judge was correct in *698granting defendants’ motion for a directed verdict if plaintiff’s evidence, considered true and with the benefit of every inference resolved in her favor, failed to establish all of the following elements: (i) the standard of care required of defendant physician; (ii) breach of the standard of care; (iii) proximate cause; and (iv) damages. Lowery v. Newton, 52 N.C. App. 234, 278 S.E. 2d 566, reconsideration of denial of discretionary review denied, 304…