SHERRILL v. TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH

No. 855SC1279.

344 S.E.2d 357 (1986)

John W. SHERRILL and Joseph T. Walsh v. TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, North Carolina, Board of Aldermen of the Town of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; Eugene N. Floyd, Individually and as Mayor; Cornielle Sineath, Individually and as Alderman, Frances L. Russ, Individually and as Alderman, Carlton B. Hall, as Alderman and James W. Summey, III, Individually and as Alderman; John T. Nesbitt, Town Building Inspector.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. MacDonald, Wilmington, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John W. Sherrill, pro se.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, by Anthony H. Brett, Winston-Salem, for defendants-appellees.


PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiffs assign error to the ruling by the trial court that any challenge to the ordinance originally zoning plaintiffs' property for single-family dwellings only was barred by the applicable statute of limitations since the ordinance was in effect at the time plaintiffs acquired their interest in the properties. The Town of Wrightsville Beach passed its first zoning ordinance in 1972. Plaintiffs' property was included in an R-1 district, which at...

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