SWANSON v. STATE

No. 64PA91.

410 S.E.2d 490 (1991)

330 N.C. 390

Norman W. SWANSON, Henry F. Murray, Carl L. Whitney, William E. Nicholson, III, Charles A. Dancy, Melvin F. Eyerman, Ira N. Schwarz, John L. Powell, Jr., Galina Elworth, Donald V. Wallace, William E. Denton, Robert A. Nisbet, Walter J. Bartnikowski, Ralph P. Hunt, Marion B. Zollicoffer, William H. Talbert, Billy Clark, Wallace M. Davis, Grady L. Strange, Hamilton M. Howe, Mary L. Pritchard, Robert B. Campbell, Browning Adams, Pritchard G. Adams, William H. Adams, Edward H. and Flossie P. Allen, Joseph A. Allen, Rachel C. Allred, Helen L. and Leo I. Anctil, Ronald E. Anderson, Clarence P. Armstrong, Carroll W. Austin, F.L. Austin, Jr., Donald P. Bahr, Paul Ballus, Charles D. Barker, Sr., Walter E. Barkhouse, Edward C. Barret, James L. Baxter, Russell W. Beard, Bernard L. Beatty, Richard K. Bell, Leo E. Benade, Sherman W. Betts, Joseph H. Betz, Robert L. Blevins, Franklin M. Blunt, Timothy C. Bolick, Margaret C. Boone, Henry A. Botkin, Alex Bourdas, Ola May (Tate) Bovender, Eugene A. Bowen, Lavaune K. Breda, Marlowe G. Breda, Trond G. Brekke, Laura B. Brendle, Millard Bridgers, Clarence M. Bridges, Doris K. Bridges, Cyrus H. Brooks, Jr., Daniel R. Brown, K.A. Brown, William D. Brown, Betty P. Bullock, Robert S. Bullock, Findley Burns, Jr., Ray G. Burrell, Richard E. Bush, James M. Byrne, Norman L. Carlton, Matthew E. Carmean, Frank Cates, J. Crawford Caton, Harry E. Chamberlain, Vincent H. Chase, Paul F. Chavez, Woodrow H. Childress, John G. Church, Herman L. Clanton, Robert L. Clarke, Charles C. Clausen, Sr., Dennis E. Cleckner, Steve P. Clemenic, Lacy W. Coates, Rucia A. Cobb, James A. Coddington, Catheryn S. Coley, Laura K. Conder, James C. Conine, Marshall G. Cooper, Asbury Coward, III, Newton P. Cox, Ruth A. Cox, Burnette E. Creasman, Thomas J. Culkin, Hazel B. Curlee, Milton L. Dail, Beatrice G. Davis, Bernley S. Davis, Donald M. Davis, Essie M. Davis, George E. Davis, Robert J. Davis, Clifford H. Dawson, Calvin F. Dean, Orien G. Dean, Jr., Jack M. Deaton, Violet B. Deitmaring, Arlen J. DeVito, John E. Devlyn, Sara E. Devlyn, Joy E. Dickinson, Mrs. Leroy B. Dickinson, James E. Diffee, Delbert R. Dillon, Margaret H. Dopf, Raymond E. Dopf, Leroy M. Duffy, Charles F. Dupont, Bobby R. Eason, David Edmisten, Carl L. Effler, John H. Elder, Jr., John R. Ellis, Manford G. Farr, Rita Festo, John J. Filan, Angelo A. Florentino, Robert W. Folden, Oscar F. Fowler, Melvin W. Fritz, Walton E. Fulcher, Robert C. Fuller, Walter E. Fuller, Frank W. Furches, Norman Carl Gaddis, Marshall L. Gaddy, Thomas B. Gardiner, Robert F. Geissler, William E. Gentner, Jr., Thomas P. Ginn, Robert W. Goodman, John R. Gordon, Bernice C. Grandy, Jr., Steven W. Grandy, Robert J. Green, Michael R. Greeson, James H. Griffin, Thomas M. Groome, Jr., James W. Gross, Arthur S. Gunderson, Hert L. Hancock, Jr., James M. Hardin, C. Lee Harris, Howard W. Harris, Paul H. Harvey, Roland R. Hatcher, Henry S. Heffley, Jr., Carroll A. Hefner, Clarence J. Hensley, Jr., Richard M. Heriot, Doris T. and Novis S. Herring, Virginia R. Hildebrand, Mozelle L. Hinshaw, Herman J. Hipps, Rufus M. Hodgin, Donald R. Hoffman, Charles K. Hoffmeyer, Mary R. Holland, Edgar P. Holt, Ray Homesley, Ned A. Hood, Robert H. Hood, Stephen W. Hopkins, Clyde L. Howard, Jr., Kevin G. Hughes, Harvey R. Hurst, Sam P. Hyatt, John L. Irby, Mattie B. Ives, Francis Jacobs, Richard L. Jarrett, Jacqueline M. Jennings, Woodrow W. Jones, Donald L. Jorgenson, Kenneth R. Joseph, Patsie W. Joseph, Everette R. Keller, Bernard J. Kelley, Wilson P. Kemp, Howard Lee Kerr, Margaret C. Kerr, William S. Ketner, David L.G. King, Thomas M. King, Jr., Evelyn W. Kinney, John E. Kirk, Paul E. Kirkland, Sr., Raymond B. Kleber, Geroge M. Knobl, Jr., William F. Knopf, Max V. Krebs, William J. Kuhn, Jr., James M. Langston, Jr., Jane W. Langston, Elmer L. Lashua, John L. Latham, Daniel M. Lauderback, August R. Lawrence, Freida H. and Norwood P. Lewis, Henry G. and Dorothy J. Liles, Walter E. Linthicum, Phyllis V. Lippard, George Lott, Robert P. Lucas, Allen M. Mabe, Thomas S. MacEluch, William F. Marcuson, Jr., Warner G. Maupin, Lylton E. Maxwell, Oliver A. Mays, Andrew G. Mayse, Samuel S. McCachren, Elizabeth S. McCaskill, Elizabeth G. McDonald, Clyde W. McKirk, Donald D. McGuire, Norman H. McLaughlin, Doy K. McPhail, William Ray Medlin, Jr., Ernest E. Miller, Margaret H. Miller, Edgar N. Millington, Harold J. Mitchener, Eugene E. Moody, Dorothy C. Moore, James C. Moore, Jr., Lucie E. Moorman, Robert M. Moose, Jack B. Morris, Regena E. Morrison, Stanley B. Morse, Woodford T. Moseley, George R. Muse, R.J. Nettles, Thomas G. Newport, John E. Nitsche, Alfred P. Norwood, Johnnie M. Ochoa, Elvin E. Oglesby, Oliver G. Oja, Russell E. Olson, Lloyd A. Osborne, Paul B. Osgood, William C. PAGE, Lee R. Paramore, Lewis W. Pate, Charles R. Patton, Vernon J. Peebles, W.W. Pegues, Mary E. and John D. Penn, Elliotte T. Perkins, Jr., William H. Perry, Jr., Paul J. Phillippi, Richard L. Phillips, Ruby A. Phillips, Frank J. Piazza, Sr., Dallas Pickard, Jr., George A. Pinter, Edward W. Piper, Frederick H. Pless, R.F. Hoke Pollock, Jr., Lewington S. Ponder, Elbert Y. Poole, Jennette C. Poole, Martha Boyce Poteat, Edwin H. Price, Charles R. Pugh, Daniel J. Quesenberry, Milton H. Quinn, Louise M. Rabbino, Thomas M. Ramsey, Jack G. Ray, Marshall G. Ray, Hazel S. Redmon, George R. Reinhart, III, Annie E. Renkel, Madge O. Reynolds, Franklin E. Richardson, Jr., Allen W. Rigsby, George M. Roberts, Jennings B. Robinson, James P. Roth, Phifer P. Rothman, Harold E. Ruble, Hilda H. Rultenberg, Donald E. Russell, George W. Sabo, Lyle E. Samson, Robert L. Scheer, Frederick L. Schuerman, Sr., Robert J. Schullery, Elwood M. Shaulis, Robert T. Sheridan, Stanley T. Shipley, Charles B. Shively, Charles A. and Ruth M. Shue, Jr., Elsie N. and Frederick E. Simmons, Mary B. Simpson, Manuel F. Siverio, Joseph A. Sizoo, Evelyn S. Smith, George B. Smith, James A. Smith, James E. Smith, James P. Smith, Joe F. Smith, Percy H. Smith, Joseph L. Sommer, Ray H. Spangler, James A. Sprankle, Wiley L. Standifer, Jr., James W. Starbuck, Gertrude D. Starling, Stacy J. Starling, Henry C. Steed, Jr., Roy C. Steeley, Arthur L. Stewart, Burlena J. Stewart, John R. Stewart, Jr., George W. Stillway, Rita M. Stillway, Harold E. Stone, Clyde Dalton Stowe, Harry H. Strunk, E.C. Stumpf, Thomas A. Summey, Jr., Ellis G. Sumner, Leo B. and Mildred Y. Sumner, Margaret K. Swink, James E. Sykes, Oliver B. Talbert, James D. Terrell, Clyde E. and Emogene M. Thompson, Fred L. Tracy, Rocco H. Trombello, John G. Truitt, Jr., William H. Turk, James T. Vance, Frances A. VanDen, George W. Vanden, Ethel D. VanHorn, Edward J. Vaughn, Edward Venkler, Roy L. Vick, Sr., Kermit J. Vinson, Myrtle H. Vinson, William E. Wade, Floyd H. Waldrop, Wanda E. Wallace, Roland J. Weber, Grace F. Weiner, Lona C. Weisner, Lawrence O. Welch, Paul B. Welch, Jr., George L. Westerlind, William B. White, T.M. Whittington, Jr., George W. Wilkins, Robert S. Williams, Jr., William C. Williams, Winton H. Williams, Harold P. Williamson, Edna Mae Wilson, Robert Graves Wilson, Jr., Ernest G. Winstead, Peter S. Wondolowski, Robert V. Wood, Maynard B. and Evelyn W. Woodbury, Jack R. Worley, John T. Worrell, George T. Worrell, George E. Yale, Jr., and William P. Yarborough, individually for the benefit and on behalf of all other similarly situated, Class A Plaintiffs, Charles L. Berry, Robert D. Lennon, Zebulon V. Moseley, III, Gary W. O'Neal, Milton S. Price, Martin L. Speicher and Paul H. Turney, individually and for the benefit and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Class B Plaintiffs, v. The STATE of North Carolina, Helen A. Powers, Individually as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, the North Carolina Department of Revenue and Harlan Boyles, Treasurer of the State of North Carolina, Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 6, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Taylor and Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by G. Eugene Boyce, Donald L. Smith, Jasper L. Cummings, Jr., Wallace R. Young, Jr., and Michael J. Newman, Winston-Salem, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Edwin M. Speas, Jr., Sr. Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas F. Moffitt, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Marilyn R. Mudge, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Douglas A. Johnston, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for State appellant.

Robinson, Bradshaw and Hinson, P.A. by John R. Wester and David C. Wright, III, Charlotte, for defendant appellant Helen A. Powers.


WEBB, Justice.

We have granted the plaintiffs' petition for rehearing in order to answer some of the claims made by the plaintiffs in the petition. The plaintiffs say, in their petition for rehearing, that the matter passed on in superior court was a motion for partial summary judgment which dealt only with claims under the Constitution of the United States. They say that they have alleged claims under the Constitution...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases