Although the defendant-landowner showed that its customers used a vacant lot for parking to visit defendant’s businesses, the Department of Transportation showed that defendant did not own the vacant lot, and defendant failed to show that it had a prescriptive ...

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This dispute is between the Greater North Carolina Jurisdiction Church of God in Christ, Inc. (GNCJ), and the plaintiff-church, which bought land and built a church on it with no funding from the GNCJ or the national Church of God ...

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Defendants Nash and Edgecombe Counties clearly breached their contract with the Edgecombe-Nash Mental Health Disabilities and Substance Abuse Area Authority (ENHM) when – once ENHM’s debt was paid – the counties failed to transfer title to the land on which ...

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The defendant-county changed the zoning of a 12-acre parcel to match the zoning of an adjacent 150-acre parcel, both owned by defendant Terra Equity, Inc. Plaintiffs challenge the rezoning of the 12-acre tract as illegal spot zoning; however, only one ...

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  Despite being out of pocket for $75,000, an 88-year-old disabled veteran was able to hold on to his valuable Morrisville property after he had agreed to sell it to a direct home buyer, his attorney reports. Paul Stam of ...

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Plaintiff owns a private, non-navigable lake and performed extensive work on the lake with the expectation that adjacent landowners would join the plaintiff’s fishing club and pay annual dues of $500 if they desired to fish on the lake. Nevertheless, ...

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Even though both the defendant-county and the proposed intervenor-neighbors want to see the county’s uniform development ordinance (UDO) enforced, the neighbors have private interests which the county does not seek to protect. Moreover, the county and plaintiff have already engaged ...

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According to plaintiff, her childless and widowed brother willed a condominium to her and a house to his sister-in-law. After learning that his sister-in-law preferred the condo, the decedent decided the women could switch, and he deeded the condo to ...

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In a real property investment scheme, the defendant-seller did not communicate directly with the plaintiff-buyers, and plaintiffs’ syndicator did its own due diligence and reached different conclusions from the seller as to the likelihood that a major tenant would renew ...

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The plaintiff-homebuyer sufficiently stated a claim for unfair trade practices against defendants who allegedly negligently built and sold her a house but failed to notify her of the defective conditions in the house. We dismiss plaintiff’s appeal of the dismissal ...

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