Title: In Re Burris
Citation: 140 S.E.2d 408, 263 N.C. 793
Docket Number: 112
State: north-carolina
Issuer: north-carolina Supreme Court
Date: February 24, 1965

140 S.E.2d 408 (1965)
263 N.C. 793
In re discharge of Robert C. BURRIS by the City Manager, the Civil Service Commission and the City Council of the City of Asheville.
No. 112.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.
February 24, 1965.
*410 W. M. Styles, Asheville, for petitioner-appellant.
O. E. Starnes, Jr., Asheville, for the City of Asheville, respondent-appellee.
William J. Cocke, Asheville, for Civil Service Board of the City of Asheville, respondent-appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner's assignments of error do not call into question the findings of fact made by the Civil Service Commission or the evidence on which they are based. This appeal presents only the question whether the facts found support Judge Clarkson's conclusions of law. Merrell v. Jenkins, 242 N.C. 636, 89 S.E.2d 242.
The findings of fact unequivocally disclose that petitioner knowingly and deliberatelyand at an expenditure of considerable time and effortbrought about a conflict of interest between himself and his employer.
Where an employee deliberately acquires an interest adverse to his employer, he is disloyal, and his discharge is justified. 3 Am.Jur.2d, Agency § 48 (1962).
The judgment of the court below is
Affirmed.