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      "LESLIE EATON AND WIFE, DANITA EATON, Plaintiffs v. JERRY CAMPBELL, SR., CHRISTIAN REALTY, INC., KAREN S. CAMPBELL, F & I MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC d/b/a MIRACLE MORTGAGE, FRANK E. BETHEL, JR., ANGELA S. BETHEL, and ANGELA LISCOMB, Defendants"
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        "text": "MARTIN, Chief Judge.\nDefendants Jerry Campbell, Sr. and Karen S. Campbell appeal from a judgment awarding treble damages and attorney\u2019s fees to plaintiffs Leslie Eaton and Danita Eaton. We affirm.\nPlaintiffs brought an action against defendants alleging actual and constructive fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair and deceptive trade practices, conversion, and conspiracy to commit conversion. After hearing the matter without a jury, the trial court made numerous findings \u2014 none of which are effectively challenged on appeal \u2014 and concluded that defendants breached their contract with, and fiduciary duty to, plaintiffs; converted plaintiffs\u2019 property to their own;- committed actual and constructive fraud against plaintiffs; and committed unfair and deceptive acts against plaintiffs. The court then determined that plaintiffs had been damaged in the amount of $40,532.00 and, as a result of defendants\u2019 unfair and deceptive acts, awarded treble damages in the amount of $121,596.00 plus interest and attorney\u2019s fees. Defendants appealed.\n\u201cThe function of all briefs required or permitted by [the Appellate R]ules is to define clearly the issues presented to the reviewing court and to present the arguments and authorities upon which the parties rely in support of their respective positions thereon.\u201d N.C.R. App. R 28(a) (\u201cThe scope of review on appeal is limited to issues so presented in the several briefs.\u201d). \u201cIt is not the duty of this Court to supplement an appellant\u2019s brief with legal authority or arguments not contained therein.\u201d Goodson v. P.H. Glatfelter Co., 171 N.C. App. 596, 606, 615 S.E.2d 350, 358, supersedeas and disc. review denied, 360 N.C. 63, 623 S.E.2d 582 (2005); see also Viar v. N.C. Dep\u2019t of Transp., 359 N.C. 400, 402, 610 S.E.2d 360, 361 (per curiam) (\u201cIt is not the role of the appellate courts ... to create an appeal for an appellant.\u201d), reh\u2019g denied, 359 N.C. 643, 617 S.E.2d 662 (2005).\nIn the present case, although defendants \u201cquestion[] the law that should have been applied to decide the issues presented herein,\u201d defendants fail to identify what, if any, relevant law was the source of the purported \u201cconfusion and misinterpretation in the [trial court\u2019s] rulings,\u201d and which, if any, law should have been applied in its stead. Because defendants\u2019 limited and unsupported arguments give us no reason to disturb the trial court\u2019s judgment in which its conclusions of law are supported by its findings of fact which are, in turn, supported by the record evidence, see Shear v. Stevens Bldg. Co., 107 N.C. App. 154, 160, 418 S.E.2d 841, 845 (1992) (\u201cIt is well settled in this jurisdiction that when the trial court sits without a jury, the standard of review on appeal is whether there was competent evidence to support the trial court\u2019s findings of fact and whether its conclusions of law were proper in light of such facts.\u201d), we affirm.\nAffirmed.\nJudges BRYANT and McCULLOUGH concur.\n. Defendants Frank E. Bethel, Jr., Angela S. Bethel, and Angela Liscomb were dismissed from the action and did not participate in this appeal.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "T. Allen Gardner, Jr., for plaintiffs-appellees.",
      "Jerry Campbell, Sr. and Karen S. Campbell, pro se, for defendants-appellants."
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    "head_matter": "LESLIE EATON AND WIFE, DANITA EATON, Plaintiffs v. JERRY CAMPBELL, SR., CHRISTIAN REALTY, INC., KAREN S. CAMPBELL, F & I MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC d/b/a MIRACLE MORTGAGE, FRANK E. BETHEL, JR., ANGELA S. BETHEL, and ANGELA LISCOMB, Defendants\nNo. COA11-1362\n(Filed 15 May 2012)\nDamages and Remedies \u2014 appellants\u2019 argument unsupported by law \u2014 trial court\u2019s order affirmed\nThe trial court did not err in an actual and constructive fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair and deceptive trade practices, conversion, and conspiracy to commit conversion case by determining that plaintiffs had been damaged in the amount of $40,532.00 and, as a result of defendants\u2019 unfair and deceptive acts, awarding treble damages in the amount of $121,596.00 plus interest and attorney fees. Defendants failed to identify what, if any, relevant law was the source of the purported confusion and misinterpretation in the trial court\u2019s rulings, and which, if any, law should have been applied in its stead. Defendants\u2019 limited and unsupported arguments gave the Court of Appeals no reason to disturb the trial court\u2019s judgment.\nAppeal by defendants from judgment entered 23 December 2010 by Judge Ronald L. Stephens in Franklin County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 23 April 2012.\nT. Allen Gardner, Jr., for plaintiffs-appellees.\nJerry Campbell, Sr. and Karen S. Campbell, pro se, for defendants-appellants."
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