ANDERSON v. BUTLER

No. 7318SC469.

199 S.E.2d 684 (1973)

19 N.C. App. 627

Eugene S. ANDERSON, II, by his guardian ad litem, et al. v. Cornelius BUTLER, Jr., and wife, Phyllis H. Butler.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 24, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dees, Johnson, Tart, Giles & Tedder by J. Sam Johnson, Jr., Greensboro, for plaintiff appellees.

Harry Rockwell, John R. Hughes, Greensboro, and T. Worth Coltrane, Asheboro for defendant appellants.


VAUGHN, Judge.

The record does not disclose that defendants stated the specific grounds for their motions for a directed verdict. It is clear, however, that the motions were made on the grounds that the evidence, in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, as a matter of law was insufficient to justify a verdict for plaintiffs. The motion thus raised substantially the same question as that formerly raised by a motion for involuntary nonsuit. Kelly v. Harvester Co...

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