Title: Mellon v. Prosser

State: north-carolina

Issuer: North Carolina Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. 361A97
FILED: 6 FEBRUARY 1998
RICKEY WAYNE MELLON
v.
CATHIE W. PROSSER, Individually, and as a Deputy of the Cleveland
County Sheriff's Department; DAN CRAWFORD, Sheriff of Cleveland
County; and CLEVELAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
Appeal of right by defendants pursuant to N.C.G.S. §
7A-30(2) of the decision of a divided panel of the Court of
Appeals, ___ N.C. App. ___, 486 S.E.2d 439 (1997), reversing an
order entered on 13 May 1996 by Ferrell, J., in Superior Court,
Cleveland County.  Heard in the Supreme Court on 16 December
1997.
No brief for plaintiff-appellee.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, by G. Michael Barnhill
and W. Clark Goodman, for defendant-appellants.
PER CURIAM.
That part of the opinion of the majority in the Court
of Appeals remanding this action to the Superior Court for
joinder of the sheriff’s surety as a party is reversed for the
reasons set forth in the dissenting opinion of Judge Wynn.  In
all other respects, the opinion of the majority in the Court of
Appeals is affirmed for the reasons stated therein.
AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART.