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PEOPLES FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH v. WATSON

No. 8518SC1164.

344 S.E.2d 337 (1986)

PEOPLES FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH and David G. Taylor, Plaintiffs, v. Kenneth WATSON, George Griffey, Markus K. Philemon, Jimmy Phillips and Steven Dennis Montgomery, Original Defendants-Appellees, v. E. Wayne SMITH, Minnie C. Smith, North Carolina National Bank of North Carolina and Russell Batten, Jr., Additional Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 17, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberson, Haworth & Reese by William P. Miller, High Point, for original defendants-appellees.

Kluttz, Hamlin, Reamer, Blankenship & Kluttz by Malcolm B. Blankenship, Jr., Salisbury, for additional defendants-appellants.

ARNOLD, Judge.

The additional defendants contend that the trial court erred in concluding that the notice of lis pendens filed by original plaintiffs on 1 March 1983 constituted constructive notice of pending litigation affecting title to the property so as to defeat the additional defendants' claim to title. We agree.

The doctrine of lis pendens is firmly established and provides that:

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