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SOUTHERN EQUIPMENT CO., INC. v. WINSTEAD

No. 858SC833.

342 S.E.2d 524 (1986)

SOUTHERN EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC., D/B/A Ready Mixed Concrete Company v. Cecil WINSTEAD, Morris Newkirk, Raymond Smith, Preston Wells, Jr., and John K. Sykes, Members of the Board of Adjustment of the Town of Mount Olive, North Carolina, and the Board of Adjustment of the Town of Mount Olive, North Carolina.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dees, Smith, Powell, Jarrett, Dees & Jones by William A. Dees, Jr., Goldsboro, for petitioner-appellee.

Vickory & Hawkins by C. Branson Vickory, Mount Olive, for respondents-appellants.

PHILLIPS, Judge.

This appeal turns upon the sense in which the word "ceases" is used in the foregoing ordinance, which forfeits the right to use non-conforming property under the conditions stated therein. As is commonly known the word "cease" has two meanings; one of which indicates a final condition, but the other does not. The definition most frequently given by the dictionaries in widest use is "[t]o come to an end; to stop." Webster's New International Dictionary...

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