CALDWELL v. SHELL

56443.

148 Ga. App. 295 (1978)

251 S.E.2d 151

CALDWELL et al. v. SHELL et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided December 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Nickolas P. Chilivis, Robert M. Travis, for appellants.

Smith, Cohen, Ringel, Kohler & Martin, Williston C. White, for appellees.


BANKE, Judge.

This is a tort action in which the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant/appellee at the close of all the evidence. The appellants appeal the denial of their motion for new trial and enumerate as error the judge's entry of a directed verdict.

"`The trial judge has no right whatever to weigh the evidence, nor to decide any issue of fact. Before he can legally direct a verdict for the defendants, he must find from the evidence that there...

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