HEARNE v. SHERMAN

No. 309A98.

516 S.E.2d 864 (1999)

Walter Lee HEARNE, Petitioner, v. Wayne SHERMAN, Health Director of Chatham County, and Chatham County, Respondents.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McSurely & Osment, by Alan McSurely and Ashley Osment, Chapel Hill, for petitioner-appellant.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, by James R. Morgan, Jr., Winston-Salem, for respondent-appellees.


LAKE, Justice.

This employment termination case comes to this Court as a result of a dissent in an unpublished decision in the Court of Appeals. The evidence in the record reflects that petitioner Walter Lee Hearne served as an "Animal Control Officer II" with the Chatham County Health Department until January 1995. Petitioner's employment ended when respondent Wayne Sherman, director of the Chatham County Health Department, sought petitioner's resignation as a result...

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