C INVESTMENTS 2, LLC v. AUGER

No. 228A21.

881 S.E.2d 270 (2022)

2022-NCSC-119

C INVESTMENTS 2, LLC v. Arlene P. AUGER, Herbert W. Auger, Eric E. Craig, Gina Craig, Laura Dupuy, Stephen Ezzo, Janice Huff Ezzo, Anne Carr Gilman Wood, as Trustee of the Francis Davidson Gilman, III Trust fbo PETS UW dated June 20, 2007, Lauren Heaney, Ginner Hudson, Jack Hudson, Arthur Maki, Ruth Maki, Jennie Raubacher, Matthew Raubacher, as Co-Trustees of the Raubacher/Cheung Family Trust dated November 11, 2018, Jeffrey Stegall, Valerie Stegall, and C Investments 4, LLC.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed December 16, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, Charlotte, by Michael G. Adams , Morgan H. Rogers , and W. Coker Holmes , for plaintiff-appellee, C Investments 2, LLC, and substituted party C Investments 4, LLC.

Davies Law Firm, PLLC, by Kenneth T. Davies ; Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., Charlotte, by Richard A. Vinroot ; and Nexsen Pruet, PLLC, Charlotte, by James C. Smith , for defendant-appellants, Arlene P. Auger, Charlotte, Herbert W. Auger, Charlotte, Eric E. Craig, Gina D. Craig, Stephen Ezzo, and Janice Huff Ezzo.

Caudle & Spears, P.A., Charlotte, by Christopher P. Raab and L. Cameron Caudle, Jr. , for defendant-appellees Jennie Raubacher and Matthew Raubacher, as Co-Trustees of the Raubacher/Cheung Family Trust dated November 11, 2008.

Roberts & Stevens, P.A., Asheville, by Kenneth R. Hunt and Wyatt S. Stevens , for Jon R. Bellows, Galliard S. Bellows, Thomas A. Schieber, Elizabeth G. Schieber, William L. Everist, Mary K. Everist, Daniel P. Comer, Meredith M. Comer, James S. O'Brien, Gisselle L. O'Brien, Sara Edmonds Green, Rebecca D. Tucker, Tony L. Wilkey, Diana M. Wilkey, Kenneth R. Hunt, Asheville, and Shannon U. Hunt; and J. Boone Tarlton and Ervin L. Ball, Jr., Asheville, for Wayne S. Stanko, and Janice Stanko, amici curiae.

Jordan Price Wall Gray Jones & Carlton, PLLC, by H. Weldon Jones, III , for Community Associations Institute, amicus curiae.

Offit Kurman, P.A., Charlotte, by Zipporah Basile Edwards and Robert B. McNeill , for North Carolina Land Title Association, amicus curiae.

Roberson Haworth & Reese, PLLC, High Point, by Alan B. Powell and Andrew D. Irby , for Lori H. Postal, amicus curiae.

Alexander Ricks, PLLC, by Amy P. Hunt , Charlotte, for Michael and Karyn Reardon, amici curiae.

Edmund T. Urban, for Urban Title Company, Inc. and pro se, amici curiae.

Davies Law Firm, PLLC, by Kenneth T. Davies , for C. E. Williams, III, Margaret W. Williams, R. Michael James, Katherine H. James, Strawn Cathcart, Susan S. Cathcart, Mark B. Mahoney, and Noelle S. Mahoney; Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., Charlotte, by Richard A. Vinroot, pro se, and for Judith A. Vinroot; and Nexsen Pruet, PLLC, Charlotte, by James C. Smith , for Thomas M. Belk, Sarah F. Belk, D. Steve Boland, Katrice C. Boland, Shippen Browne, Bridget Browne, Joseph D. Downey, Kristen L. Downey, Jubel A. Early, Katherine C. Early, John K. Hudson, Carolyn B. Hudson, John Ames Kneisel, Anna Blair Kneisel, Alexander W. McAlister, Susan N. McAlister, Ian McDade, Victoria L. McDade, Mark William Mealy, Rose Patrick Mealy, Walter O. Nisbet, Danielle F. Nisbet, Scott John Rogers Smith, Mary Mallard Smith, G. Kennedy Thompson, Kathylee B. Thompson, George C. Ullrich, Margaret C. Ullrich, John R. Wickham, Charlotte H. Wickham, William S. Wilson, Ellen G. Wilson, Landon R. Wyatt, and Edith H. Wyatt, amici curiae.


¶ 1 In this case we are called upon to determine the proper interpretation of North Carolina's Real Property Marketable Title Act, N.C.G.S. §§ 47B-1 to 47B-9 (2021) and its thirteenth enumerated exception. See N.C.G.S. § 47B-3(13). Defendants appeal from a divided Court of Appeals decision, which affirmed...

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