Article: NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ISSUES OPINION REGARDING TOWN OF MAIDEN V. LINCOLN COUNTY

RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 4 -- The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued the following opinion:

TOWN OF MAIDEN, a North Carolina Municipal Corporation

Plaintiff,

v. Catawba County

No. 07 CVS 4271

LINCOLN COUNTY

Defendant.

Appeal by Defendant from order entered 5 August 2008 by Judge Nathaniel J. Poovey in Superior Court, Catawba County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 9 June 2009.

Crowe & Davis, P.A., by H. Kent Crowe, for plaintiff-appellee. Pendleton, Pendleton & Deaton, P.A., by Jeffrey A. Taylor, for defendant-appellant.

WYNN, Judge.

N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 1-77(2) (2007) provides that actions against a public officer "must be tried in the county where the cause, or some part thereof, ...

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