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LEETE v. COUNTY OF WARREN

No. 939SC529.

443 S.E.2d 98 (1994)

114 N.C. App. 755

Harry M. LEETE, Albert Sears Bugg, Thomas Holt, Claude F. Burrows, II, Cecil Craig Allen, Charles A. Bennett, William S. Bugg, James E. Crenshaw, Jr., and the Other Taxpayers of Warren County, Plaintiffs, v. The COUNTY OF WARREN, a Body politic and corporate; Lucious Hawkins, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Warren County; O.L. Meek, William T. Skinner, III, James Byrd, and George E. Shearin, Members of the Board of Commissioners of Warren County; and Susan W. Brown, Finance Officer of Warren County, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 17, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Banzet, Banzet & Thompson by Julius Banzet, III, and Lewis A. Thompson, III, Warrenton, for plaintiff-appellees.

Charles T. Johnson, Jr., Warrenton, and Michael B. Brough & Associates by Michael B. Brough, Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellants.

MARTIN, Judge.

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether defendants' proposed payment of "severance pay" to Mr. Worth violates Article I, Section 32 of the North Carolina Constitution. For the reasons set forth herein, we hold that it does not. Accordingly, we reverse the order of the trial court.

Article I, Section 32 provide as follows: Exclusive emoluments. No person or set of persons is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments...

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