SCALES v. TUCKER

No. 8417SC530.

327 S.E.2d 306 (1985)

Edna SCALES v. Basil M. TUCKER, D.P.M. and Catherine Birdsall Healy, D.P.M.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 2, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe L. Webster, Madison, and W. Steven Allen, Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellant.

Tuggle, Duggins, Meschan and Elrod by Joseph E. Elrod, III and Sally A. Lawing, Greensboro, for defendants-appellees.


PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiff assigns error to the trial judge's entry of directed verdict in favor of defendants. The trial judge was correct in granting 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...

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