Rule 240. Directed Verdicts

The order of the court granting a motion for a directed verdict is effective without any assent of the jury.

Committee Notes

This new rule, taken from Rule 50(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended in 1963, eliminates an archaic and futile ceremony. See Kaplan, Amendments of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 1961-63 (II), 77 Harv. L. Rev. 801, 823 (1964).