COLSON v. SHAW

No. 36.

273 S.E.2d 243 (1981)

Sebastian Lee COLSON, by his Guardian Ad Litem, Clarence W. Mattocks, and Patricia Ann Colson v. Mamie Macon SHAW and Dan R. Douglass.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schoch, Schoch & Schoch by Arch Schoch, Jr., High Point, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter by J. Donald Cowan, Jr. and Suzanne Reynolds, Greensboro, for defendant-appellee.


COPELAND, Justice.

The sole issue before us on this appeal is whether the evidence presented by plaintiffs at trial was sufficient to withstand defendant Douglass' motion for directed verdict. Since Judge Harry C. Martin's dissent was confined to that portion of the Court of Appeals' opinion which affirmed the entry of directed verdict in favor of defendant Douglass, we are not called upon to decide the propriety of the directed verdict entered for defendant Shaw...

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