Connolly v. People's Life Ins. Co. of SC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a party must state a specific ground for a directed verdict motion in order to preserve the issue for appellate review
• holding Court of Appeals should not have addressed “somewhat general” exceptions which required the court to grope in the dark searching the record for the issue being raised
• holding that an exception omitting to state why a trial court erred violates Supreme Court Rule 4, § 6 and emphasizing that “[T]he Court of Appeals may not decide an issue neither presented to the circuit court nor raised by proper exception on appeal.”
• the court of appeals is not to address any issue not specifically raised to the trial court
• the court of appeals is not to address any issue not specifically raised to the trial court
• Court of Appeals may not decide an issue neither raised to nor ruled upon by the trial judge

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