LEETE v. COUNTY OF WARREN

No. 308A94.

462 S.E.2d 476 (1995)

341 N.C. 116

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 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.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 28, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Banzet, Banzet & Thompson by Julius Banzet, III and Lewis A. Thompson, III, Warrenton, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael B. Brough & Associates by Michael B. Brough and Charles T. Johnson, Jr., Chapel Hill, for defendants-appellees.


ORR, Justice.

Plaintiffs instituted this action on 22 February 1993, alleging that the Warren County Board of Commissioners ("the Board") unlawfully authorized severance pay in the amount of $5,073.12 to Mr. Charles Worth upon his voluntary resignation after nine years of service as County Manager.

Plaintiffs sought and obtained a temporary restraining order on 22 February 1993, preventing the Board from making the payment to Mr. Worth. The defendants filed...

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