Four property owners fighting an annexation attempt from Greensboro won a battle this morning in the N.C. Court of Appeals. A unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a trial-court ruling that property owners Lyle Cunningham, Walter Penrod, Thomas Mellinger, and Ronald Powell are able to withdraw their consent from an annexation agreement signed by the original developers of their properties.
Among the other new opinions released this morning from the N.C. Court of Appeals:
- A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a lower court and ruled against Mebane’s Board of Adjustment in a dispute over approval of a Walgreens near a residential neighborhood.
- A unanimous three-judge panel dismissed an appeal from an engineering firm targeted in a lawsuit from the Wilmington Housing Authority. The authority contends the engineering firm performed a shoddy structural analysis and inspection of an apartment complex the authority purchased and later abandoned as unusable.
- A unanimous three-judge panel dismissed an appeal from Wal-Mart in a dispute over benefits linked to an employee’s 2007 on-the-job injury.
