NEWSOME v. N.C. STATE BD. OF ELECTIONS

No. 9110SC25.

415 S.E.2d 201 (1992)

105 N.C. App. 499

Leland M. NEWSOME and Weldon Hall, Plaintiffs, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS; M.H. Hood Ellis, Chairman, Gregg O. Allen, William A. Marsh, Ruth Turner, June K. Youngblood, Members, State Board of Elections; and Alex K. Brock, Executive Secretary-Director, State Board of Elections, Defendants, and William Burnette, Marian Langford Harkins, Harold Hunt, Claude B. Marshall, Samuel B. McGinn, Jr., David Morgan, Judy Perkins, Charlotte Dement Tippett and Stella Tripp, Intervening Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove by Michael Crowell, Raleigh, for plaintiffs-appellants.

North Carolina Dept. of Justice by Charles M. Hensey, Raleigh, for defendants-appellees.

Johnson, Gamble, Mercer, Hearn & Vinegar by Charles H. Mercer, Jr., and M. Blen Gee, Jr., Raleigh, for intervening defendants-appellees.


WYNN, Judge.

On 11 May 1989, the General Assembly ratified Senate Bill 335: "An Act to Incorporate the Town of North Topsail Beach, Subject to a Referendum." 1989 N.C.Sess. Laws Ch. 100. The Act described an area north of the Town of Surf City on Topsail Island in Onslow County to be included within the boundaries of the new town; it established the structure of the governing body to consist of a mayor and a five member Board of Aldermen; and named the persons to...

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