BLACKWELL v. CITY OF REIDSVILLE

No. COA97-984.

502 S.E.2d 371 (1998)

Allen R. BLACKWELL and wife Virginia G. Blackwell, Cheryl Bunton and husband Stephen Bunton, Charles A. Davis, Henry C. Durham and wife Evelyn C. Durham, Geraldine F. Evans, Ollie French and husband Jerry French, Timothy N. Goodman and wife Lisa F. Goodman, Charlene E. Hawks, Paul B. Jones, Willie Ray Law and wife Frances E. Law, Walter Mims and wife Minnie Mims, Henry Calvin Pettigrew and wife Ollie Mae Pettigrew, Julianne Marie Ross, Charles Richard Setliff, George M. Soyars and wife Nannie S. Soyars, Ernest Strader and wife Edna Strader, Elbert M. Suthard, Jr., Tank Land, Inc., Clarence E. Tucker and wife Ida W. Tucker, Ann Russell Boone, Anne S. Cox, Earl Max Gunn and wife Virginia H. Gunn, Lenox Castle Farms, Vernon Link and wife Linda Link, Robert L. London and wife Olene H. London, R. Neal Pegram and wife Mary A. Pegram, Junior Pruitt and wife Ann F. Pruitt, Terry E. Pruitt, Thomas P. Sharpe and wife Dobie P. Sharpe, Russell T. Shelton and wife Elsie M. Shelton, Houston W. Stanfield, Jr. and wife Barbara A. Stanfield, James R. Stanfield and wife Dee B. Stanfield, Gene L. Warren and wife Anne Claire Warren, William Jarrell Young, Donald Keith Brown, John F. Evans, Sr. and wife Sylvia M. Evans, Thelma A. Evans, William James Hash, Lillie S. Boswell, Charles F. Davis, Sr., Audrie H. David, Douglas Thomas Doss and wife Christine L. Doss, Eugene S. Eanes and wife Wilma Eanes, Rhonda H. Easter, Carl W. Fargis and wife Linda S. Fargis, Earlene G. Gilley, William J. Harmon and wife Theresa M. Harmon, Mary Hatcher, Oscar B. Madison and wife Billie B. Madison, Erwin Dean McKee, Neal H. McKee and wife Ila S. McKee, Charles S. Moore and wife Paulette C. Moore, Larry Gray Patterson and wife Shirley Patterson, Philip R. Roberts, Ronald Keith Shreve, Larry Y. Smith and wife Gayle R. Smith, Lester L. White and wife Helen C. White, Dale Barham, Royce Barham, Brown amd Son Construction, Brown Brothers Machine Shop, Jonathan D. Brown, H.P. Brown, II, David W. Brown, Robert M. Brown, Paul D. Carter, Cora L. Chaney, Dwight L. Chaney and wife Linda S. Chaney, Eugene W. Cox and wife Eva D. Cox, Larry Dunlap and wife Lisa M. Dunlap, Cecil F. Easter and wife Delcie Easter, Eugene Fuqua and wife Dorothy Fuqua, Floyd Gibson and wife Betty M. Gibson, Sterling Gunn and wife Edith Gunn, David James Halbrook and wife Angela Carter Halbrook, Larry Halbrook and wife Linda Halbrook, Wayne Hall, Jesse F. Haskins and wife Louise C. Haskins, Clyde Michael Haynes, Carolyn Hearp and husband Alfred Hearp, Jr., Bobby Hill and wife Shirley G. Hill, Ethel Hudson, Irvin Farm, Anne M. Hardingham, Sam L. Fairchild, Rose T. McMichael, Steve E. Smith, Glenn Edward Johnson and wife Carol Alban Johnson, John W. Manley, Excell Mumford and wife Josephine Mumford, James Lee Moore, Robert E. Murray, Carroll W. Musick and wife Joan Musick, James M. Roberts and wife Nellie H. Roberts, Jessie James Roberts and wife Modean H. Roberts, Samuel H. Roberton and wife Sharon Y. Robertson, Willie Sam Patty and wife Lola J. Petty, Jesse B. Pyrtle, James L. Slaydon and wife Loula Mae Slaydon, Richard Franklin Smith and wife Pelham Curlee Smith, Richard R. Smith and wife Irma C. Smith, David M. Soyars and wife Shirley T. Soyars, Tank Land, Inc., D. Wayne Terrell and wife Brenda Terrell, Charles E. Thomas and wife Annella B. Thomas, William H. Trent, Jr. and wife Linda B. Trent, James Thomas Tucker and wife Deborah Talley Tucker, Fannie Waddell, Johnnie W. York, Bertie M. Dale, Bobby Martin and wife Frances Martin, Frankie P. Moore and wife Virginia E. Moore, James D. Reeves and wife Emma R. Reeves, Sherrill Whitley and wife Carol Whitley, Whit Neilson Whitley and wife Cynthia U. Whitley, Petitioners, v. CITY OF REIDSVILLE, a North Carolina Municipal Corporation, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adams Hendon Carson Crow & Saenger, P.A. by S.J. Crow and Martin K. Reidinger, Asheville, for petitioner-appellants.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC by Roddey M. Ligon, Jr., Winston-Salem, for respondent-appellee.

Reidsville City Attorney J. Michael Thomas, Reidsville, for respondent-appellee.


EAGLES, Chief Judge.

We first consider whether the property descriptions in the annexation ordinances are metes and bounds descriptions where the property descriptions do not include courses and distances but make reference to "lots" that are not identified in the property descriptions.

Petitioners argue that the annexation statute expressly requires that in the annexation ordinance "[t]he external boundaries of the area to be annexed shall be described by...

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