Service Merchandise, Inc. v. Jackson

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• by granting directed verdict, “the case is taken away from the jury, and the court substitutes its own judgment for the combined judgment of the jury”
• in ruling on directed verdict motion, evidence must be construed in favor of party opposing motion, and for grant of motion to be proper, there must be no conflict in evidence as to any material issue
• “Under OCGA §§ 9-11-56 (c) and 9-11-50 (a), summary judgments and directed verdicts are appropriate only when the court, viewing all the facts and reasonable inferences from those facts, in a light most favorable to the nonmoving party, concludes that there are no issues to be tried.”

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