THE TOWN OF WINTON v. JOHN A. SCOTT; MRS. JOHN A. SCOTT; JOHN W. ELEY; JANICE B. ELEY; ARMSTEAD VANN; HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING UNDER ARMSTEAD VANN; MATILDA VANN; HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING UNDER MATILDA VANN; SOLOMON VANN; HEIRS, DEVISEES AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING UNDER SOLOMON VANN; SARAH VANN; HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING UNDER SARAH VANN; ARZULA VANN; HEIRS, DEVISEES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING UNDER ARZULA VANN

No. 320A86

(Filed 6 January 1987)

Appeal of right by defendants pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 80 N.C. App. 409, 342 S.E. 2d 560 (1986), affirming the judgment of Small, Judge, entered on 16 August 1985 in Superior Court, Hertford County. Heard in the Supreme Court 10 December 1986.

Moore, Wright, and Hardison, by Thomasine E. Moore, Paul A. Hardison, and Bowen C. Tatum, Jr., for defendant-appellants John A. Scott and Patricia F. Scott.

Baker, Jenkins & Jones, P.A., by Robert C. Jenkins, for defendant-appellees.