RAY v. BASSIL

No. 141, September Term, 1975.

30 Md. App. 550 (1976)

352 A.2d 888

OWEN MAXIE RAY ET AL. v. MARGARET JANE BASSIL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 4, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick A. O'Doherty for appellant Owen Maxie Ray.

William S. Barton, with whom were George L. Huber, Jr., and Arnold Beauchemin & Huber, P.A. on the brief, for appellant North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Harry Goldman, Jr., for appellee.

The cause was argued before POWERS, DAVIDSON and MOORE, JJ.


POWERS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In considering a directed verdict motion in a negligence case, the standard laid down by the cases for measuring the sufficiency of evidence requires the court to reject any evidence which is not credible.

The standard was stated by the Court of Appeals in Curley v. General Valet Service, 270 Md. 248, 264, 311 A.2d 231 (1973), to be:

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