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BROWN v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 8817SC526.

378 S.E.2d 232 (1989)

Annie BROWN, Plaintiff, v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy by Harold L. Kennedy, III, Harvey L. Kennedy, and Annie Brown Kennedy, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellee.

Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore by McNeill Smith, Michael A. Gilles, and Julie C. Theall, Greensboro, for defendant-appellant.

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant assigns error to the trial court's denial of its motions for directed verdict and judgment notwithstanding the verdict. "The purpose of a motion for a directed verdict is to test the legal sufficiency of the evidence." Hitchcock v. Cullerton, 82 N.C. App. 296, 346 S.E.2d 215 (1986). "In passing on a motion for directed verdict, the trial court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable...

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