#### JUDSON PALMER MELLOTT, JR. and wife, JOANNE M. MELLOTT v. PINEHURST, INC., PURCELL CO., INC., and PINEHURST RECEIVABLES ASSOCIATES, INC.

No. 233PA87

(Filed 2 December 1987)

ON discretionary review of the unpublished decision of the Court of Appeals, 85 N.C. App. 170, 354 S.E. 2d 775 (1987), affirming the granting of a directed verdict for defendants by Honeycutt, J„ entered 27 January 1986 in District Court, MOORE County. Heard in the Supreme Court on 12 November 1987.

Pollock, Fullenwider, Cunningham & Patterson, P.A., by Bruce T. Cunningham, Jr., for plaintiff appellants.

Douglas R. Gill for defendant appellees.

PER CURIAM.

After hearing oral argument and considering the new briefs, the Court concludes that discretionary review was improvidently allowed.

Discretionary review improvidently allowed.