COULTER v. CITY OF NEWTON

No. 8925SC1342.

397 S.E.2d 244 (1990)

100 N.C. App. 523

Leonard COULTER, Bob Seagle, and Odessa Coulter, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF NEWTON, a Municipal Corporation; Mary Bess Lawing, Alderwoman; Robert D. Saunders, Alderman; Thurmond A. Harvell, Alderman; H. Tom Rowe, Alderman; James I. Stockner, Alderman; and George Reid, Jr., Alderman, being all of the Aldermen of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Newton; Hugh R. Gaither, Mayor of Newton and Gary Workman, Acting City Manager of Newton, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Long & Cloer by Samuel H. Long, III, Hickory, for plaintiffs.

Sigmon, Sigmon & Isenhower by Jesse C. Sigmon, Jr., Newton, for defendants.


ARNOLD, Judge.

In their first assignment of error, plaintiffs contend the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to defendants and in dismissing plaintiffs' claim based on an alleged violation of N.C.Gen.Stat. § 143-318.11 (1987), otherwise known as the "open meetings law." Although plaintiffs filed the motion for summary judgment, the trial court after reviewing the pleadings, exhibits, affidavits of plaintiffs...

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