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SCOVILL MFG. CO., INC. v. TOWN OF WAKE FOREST

No. 8110SC963.

293 S.E.2d 240 (1982)

SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., Schrader Fluid Power Division, Haywood Barham, Betty L. Barham, Kenneth Cottrell, Shirley Cottrell, Clara Lee Davis, widow, Suzanne Mills Erskine, Wayne Erskine, John E. Finch, Rose S. Finch, William S. Fort, Sarah Fort, Betty J. Frankow, David M. Frankow, Mannie K. Jackson, Edward R. Jackson, Harvey M. Jones, Jr., Geraldine J. Jones, Wallace E. Looper, Carol H. Looper, John G. Mills, Jr., widower, John G. Mills, III, Joanna Mills, William R. Mims, Nancy F. Mims, A. K. Moore, Linda C. Moore, and Mae S. Withers, widow v. The TOWN OF WAKE FOREST, North Carolina, Thomas J. Byrne, Mayor and Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Fred Chandley, John B. Cole, Mrs. Dessie Harper, Guy G. Hill and Miss Ailey Young, Members of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina. SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., Schrader-Bellows Division, Haywood Barham, Betty L. Barham, Kenneth Cottrell, Shirley Cottrell, Clara Lee Davis, widow, Suzanne Mills Erskine, Wayne Erskine, John E. Finch, Rose S. Finch, William S. Fort, Sarah Fort, Mannie K. Jackson, Edward R. Jackson, Harvey M. Jones, Jr., Geraldine J. Jones, Wallace E. Looper, Carol H. Looper, John G. Mills, Jr., widower, John G. Mills, III, Joanna Mills, William R. Mims, Nancy F. Mims, Fred S. Dickerson, Linda B. Dickerson, Gladys C. Dickerson, widow, Joseph Marion Harrison, Shirley D. Harrison, Carl Kearney, Lois Kearney, Evelyn R. Kearney v. The TOWN OF WAKE FOREST, North Carolina, Thomas J. Byrne, Mayor and Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Fred Chandley, John B. Cole, Rufus H. Forrest, Guy G. Hill and Miss Ailey Young, Members of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lake & Nelson by Broxie J. Nelson, Raleigh, for corporate petitioner-appellant.

Harris & Harris by Jane P. Harris, Wake Forest, for individual petitioners-appellants.

Ellis Nassif and Manning, Fulton & Skinner by Howard E. Manning and Howard E. Manning Jr., Raleigh, for respondents-appellees.

HILL, Judge.

Where the record upon judicial review of an annexation proceeding demonstrates substantial compliance with statutory requirements by the municipality, the burden is placed on petitioners to show by competent evidence a failure to meet those requirements or an irregularity in the proceedings which resulted in material prejudice to their substantive rights. Dunn v. City of Charlotte, 284 N.C. 542,

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