SELPH v. SELPH

No. 694.

148 S.E.2d 574 (1966)

267 N.C. 635

Rayford R. SELPH v. Anna S. SELPH.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 16, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth C. Fox, Fayetteville, for plaintiff appellee.

Smith, Herring & Swaringen, by W. Ritchie Smith, Jr., Fayetteville, for defendant appellant.


SHARP, Justice.

No two rules are better settled in North Carolina than these:

(1) The trial judge has the discretionary power to set aside a verdict when, in his opinion, it would work injustice to let it stand; and, if no question of law or legal inference is involved in the motion, his action in so doing is not subject to review on appeal in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion. Goldston v. Wright,

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