Hinkle v. National Casualty Insurance

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• noting that this Court will reverse the trial court's rulings on these motions only where there is no evidence to support the rulings or where the rulings are controlled by an error of law
• noting on appeal from the denial of a directed verdict motion, the evidence and inferences must be viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, but the trial court will be reversed only when the ruling is without evidentiary support or controlled by an error of law
• “When considering a directed verdict ... motion, the trial court is required to view the evidence and the inferences that can be drawn from that evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
• \[The appellate court] will reverse the [circuit] court's rulings on [directed verdict and JNOV] motions only [when] there is no evidence to support the rulings or [when] the rulings are controlled by an error of law.\

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