Opinion ID: 666900
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: 13 Worthen also asks this court to set the jury verdict aside because the evidence was insufficient to sustain a verdict that Worthen acted with reckless disregard. In considering a challenge to a jury verdict on the grounds that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict this court must: 14 consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-movant, assume all conflicts in the evidence were resolved by the jury in non-movant's favor, assume non-movant proved all facts its evidence tends to prove, and give non-movants the benefit of all favorable inferences that may reasonably be drawn from the proven facts. A judgment notwithstanding the verdict should be granted only when all the evidence points one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences sustaining non-movant's position. 15 K & S Partnership v. Continental Bank, 952 F.2d 971, 976 (8th Cir.1992). 16 In its order (Feibelman v. Worthen Nat'l Bank, No. 91-309, slip op. at 2 (Apr. 12, 1993)), the district court reviewed the evidence and noted that it included: the express language of the trust document; evidence regarding the amount of principal distributed to the Adele Marcus' estate even after her death; Adele Marcus' tax returns; evidence of Worthen's lack of knowledge of both Adele Marcus' standard of living and what other funds she might have had; and Worthen's failure to communicate with Susan Feibelman about the depletion of principal. We agree that the evidence was sufficient to allow reasonable minds to conclude, as did the jury in this case, that Worthen acted with reckless disregard for the rights of Susan Feibelman.