ITCO CORP. v. MICHELIN TIRE CORP. COM. DIV

Charles Gordon Brown, Chapel Hills, N.C. (Jordan, Brown, Price Wall, Chapel Hill, N.C., John R. Jordan, Jr., Jordan, Brown, Price Wall, Samuel W. Johnson, Meadows, Johnson Spinks, Rocky Mount, N.C., John F. Dienelt, Brownstein, Zeidman Schomer, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellants. J. Brantley Phillips, Jr., Natalma M. McKnew, Greenville, S.C. (Fletcher C. Mann, Leatherwood, Walker, Tood Mann, Greenville, S.C., Jerry S. Alvis, Young, Moore, Henderson Alvis, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellee. Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of N.C., H.A. Cole, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., John R. Corne, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., on brief, as amicus curiae.