CARTER v. STANLY COUNTY

Richard M. Warren for plaintiff-appellants. Frank B. Aycock, III; and Parker, Poe, Adams Bernstein, L.L.P., by Fred T. Lowrance; and Michael W. Taylor for defendant-appellees. Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by D. Sigsbee Miller, Assistant Attorney General, amicus curiae. North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, by Kimberly Martin Grantham, amicus curiae.