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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TOWN OF BEECH MOUNTAIN v. GENESIS WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, INC.
    No. 230A16
    Filed 9 June 2017
    Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals,_N.C. App._, 786 S.E.2d 335 (2016), affirming an order granting summary judgment to defendant entered on 5 September 2014 by Judge Gary M. Gavenus; and finding no error in an order entered on 30 October 2013 by Judge Mark E. Powell, and in judgments entered on 29 September 2014 and 24 November 2014 and an order entered on 27 October 2014 by Judge J. Thomas Davis, all in Superior Court, Watauga County. On 7 July 2016, the Supreme Court allowed plaintiff’s petition for writ of certiorari pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-32(b) to review an additional issue. Heard in the Supreme Court on 10 April 2017.
    
      CranjUl Sumner & Ilarlzog LLP, by Jaye E. Bingham-Hinch and Patrick H. Flanagan; and Eggers, Eggers, Eggers, & Eggers, PLLC, by Stacy C. Eggers, IV, for plaintiff-appellant.
    
    
      John J. Korslen, Wake Forest University School of Law; and Clement Law Office, by Charles E. Clement and Charles A. Brady, III, for defendant-appellee.
    
    
      Momingstar Law Group, by William J. Brian, Jr., for Pacific Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.
    
   PER CURIAM.

As to the appeal of right based on the dissenting opinion, we affirm the majority decision of the Court of Appeals. We conclude that the petition for writ of certiorari as to the additional issue was improvidently allowed.

AFFIRMED; CERTIORARI IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED.