FORD v. MANN

No. COA09-677.

690 S.E.2d 281 (2010)

Phyllis FORD, George S. Bason, Jr., Anthony J. D'Anna, Sandra Bason, Barbara D'Anna, James Liddle, Ed Morrah, Peta Clayton, Brad Clayton, Carol K. Norton, Robert O. Everett, Barbara Everett, Dennis Andrews, Janet R. Andrews, James Goodson, Jamie Goodson, Charles M. Princell, Ernest W. Crawford, Wendy S. Taylor, Evelyn Ball, R.T. Ball, Paula S. Hall, Mark A. Rumley, Cathy K. Rumley, James R. McAdams, Ann Trollinger, Stan Morgan, Pat Morgan, J. Michael Ellis, Eleanor Thompson, Gwen Hoyt, James K. Pruitt, G.D. Dodson, Jr., Myles S. Beaman, Carolyn M. Beaman, Marie B. Chavis, Warner L. Chavis, Jr., Marylin S. Savery, Rex T. Savery, Jr., Andrew L. Pryce, Rebecca A. Pryce, Wilbur Suggs, Howard M. Malinski, Harold Ayscue, Marvin Raye McIntyre, Patricia McIntyre, Mary Ann Lake, Charles E. Lake, Amos Fisher, Vicky Frye, Jean Pruitt, Ronald Witherby, Lois Witherby, Russell Johnson, Beth Johnson, Thomas Glenn, Emily T. Ayscue, Tommy Loy, Sheila Loy, Virginia Gail Miller, Ralph Wadlinger, Linda Higgins, Mary Lee Malinski, Ronald W. Sorrell, Richard Hatcher, Betty Hatcher, Ingsborg Warschkow, Ronald Lee Norton, Jacqueline Headen, Wade L. Headen, Tina Wallace, Duncan Wallace, Patricia Lorenz, Patricia S. Gumula, Michael G. Gumula, Janet Nave, Edward Macheski, Vicki Coon, Doug Coon, L.G. Younts, William H. Ritter, Emily Ayscue, U. Dean Hall, Bennie Hall, and Jeffrey D. Hall, Plaintiffs, v. Will C. MANN, Virginia M. Mann, Open Golf Center, LLC, Cedar Forest Associates I, LLC, Cedar Forest Associates II, LLC, Euliss, Inc., Tar Heel Land Group, LLC, SunTrust Bank, VantageSouth Bank, Capital Bank, as successor to Financial First Federal Savings Bank, and Jihhad Libbus, Piedmont Crescent Country Club, Inc., and The Town of Swepsonville, North Carolina, a North Carolina municipal corporation, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 5, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, by Derek J. Allen and Andrew T. Tripp, Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellants.

Horack, Talley, Pharr & Lowndes, P.A., by Robert B. McNeill and Zipporah B. Edwards, Charlotte, for defendant-appellees Tar Heel Land Group, LLC, VantageSouth Bank, and SunTrust Bank.

Sparrow Wolf & Dennis, P.A., by Donald G. Sparrow, James A. Gregorio, Greensboro, and J. Michael Thomas, for defendant-appellees Euliss, Inc. and SunTrust Bank.


STEELMAN, Judge.

Where the trial court dismissed plaintiffs' claims as to only the Euliss defendants and struck plaintiffs' notice of lis pendens only as to the Euliss defendants' property, the order is interlocutory. Since plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the order affected a substantial right, this appeal must be dismissed.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

On 26 March 2008, plaintiffs filed a complaint against a number of...

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