516 S.E.2d 611 (N.C. 1998) 349 N.C. 241 Robert Gregory WILLIAMS, Denver B. Cottingham, and wife, Cheryl G. Cottingham, William S. Allen, and wife, Jackie B. Allen, Delores Stafford Clarke, and husband, Carl Lewis Clarke, Danny L. Dillon, and wife, Kathryn Redman Dillon, William T. Gilliam, and wife, Julia S. Gilliam, Alfred J. Hammonds, and wife, Violet Hammonds, Hugh Gray Hill, Sr., and wife, Willie Sutton Hill, David Matthews, and wife Shirley S. Matthews, Ronald L. Richards, and wife, Lucille G. Richards, Dorsey Stephen Sizemore, and wife, Julie M. Sizemore, Michael D. Staddon, and Candance J. Staddon, Robert U. Stuart, and wife, Rebecca W. Stuart, Jack R. Toney, and wife, Phyllis Toney, Charles W. Wiles, and wife Betty Wiles, Thomas A. Tucker, Kenneth K. Mabe, and wife, Rhonda A. Mabe, Robert L. Oglesby, and wife, Gloria F. Oglesby, Charles F. Allen and wife, Jeanette C. Allen, William D. Cissna and wife, Kathy Ann Cissna, Anthony C. Muller and wife, Frances E. Muller, Thomas Foryt and wife, Marsha Foryt, Ina B. Owen, Mark J. Mathabane and wife, Gail E. Mathabane, Russell E. Dean and wife, Anna Marie Dean, John B. Kunz and his wife, Marsha R. Kunz, R. Wayne Nelson and wife, Carol J. Nelson, Thomas Fredrick Vaught and wife, Lillian D. Vaught, Robert S. Charmichael and wife, Linda S. Charmichael, Robert J. McClellan and wife, Mary L. McClellan, Brian Green, Donnie W. Priddy and wife Janice G. Priddy, Robert B. White and wife, Nancy H. White, Lewis Backer and wife, Kathleen Backer, Kenneth Lamberson and wife, Mary Helen Lamberson, Charles F. Snow, III and wife, Susan Carol Sears Snow, Arline Hoover and husband, Wallace Hoover, David S. Elliott and wife, Anne T. Elliott, Stephen W. Long and wife, Phyllis E. Long, Alan C. Comer and wife, Lori W. Comer, Clarke L. Huber and wife, Laurie E. Huber, Philip Thomas and wife, Donna B. Thomas, Jesse B. Williams and wife, Kathleen A. Williams, Eddy L. Messick, Clemon W. Eaton and wife, Mary S. Eaton, Imogene W. McGee, Helen F. Elliott, Robert G. Woods, Shannon Wilson Nelson, Gary V. Nelson and wife, Mary M. Nelson, and Horace V. Wilson, Stephen B. Pless and wife, Kay D. Pless, James D. Murray and wife, Barbara R. Murray, Sidney Caldwell and wife, Connie J. Caldwell, Stephen Armstrong and wife, Katherine Armstrong, Bill Gaither and wife, Betty J. Gaither, Diana L. Lodding, James R. Schrader and wife, Victoria A. Schrader, Joyce Waters, Chad Culbertson and wife, Donna W. Culbertson, Bruce E. Baumbach and wife, Iris A. Baumbach, John L. Goforth, Jr., Gary Siler and wife Janice Siler, Cletus S. Angel and wife Mildred S. Angel, Ronald E. Hankins and wife, Stacy M. Hankins, Mark Sunter and wife Jane Sunter, Kenneth E. Johnson, Jr., and wife, Cynthia S. Johnson, Steven D. York and wife, Donna L. York, Joseph P. Mitchell and wife, Sonia K. Mitchell, Timothy J. Grabus and wife, Christina S. Grabus, Helen Marshall Renegar, Benny O. Tadlock and wife, Joyce S. Tadlock, Johnny Thomas, Sr., and wife, Georgia Thomas, Burr Burchette and wife, Viola Burchette, Ronnie Angel, Arbor Development Corporation, Jimmy L. Lockley and wife, N. Laverne Lockley, Robert C. Coble, Jr. and wife, Debra L. Coble and David Foy and wife, Dianne Foy v. TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE, a Municipal Corporation. No. 278P98. Supreme Court of North Carolina October 8, 1998 S.J. Crow, Martin K. Reidinger, Asheville, for Williams et al.
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John G. Wolfe, III, Kernersville, Roddey M. Ligon, Jr., Winston-Salem, for Town of Kernersville.
Prior report: 129 N.C.App. 734, 500 S.E.2d 770.
ORDER
Upon consideration of the petition filed by Petitioners in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:
"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 8th day of October 1998."
Justice WYNN recused.