LEE ORDELL ALLRED and wife,
VANESSA FELICIA HARRELLSON
ALLRED,
Plaintiffs,
v
.
Guilford County
No. 04 CVS 5012
FIRST BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION TRUST, FAIRBANKS
CAPITAL CORPORATION, and
PHILIP A. GLASS, SUBSTITUTE
TRUSTEE,
Defendants.
Weeks & Roupas, LLP, by James B. Weeks, for plaintiffs-
appellants.
The Law Office of John T. Benjamin, Jr., P.A., by John T.
Benjamin, Jr. and Devon A. Glick, for defendants-appellees.
JACKSON, Judge.
Plaintiffs Lee Odell Allred and his wife, Vanessa Felicia
Harrellson Allred, appeal the trial court's order of 17 January
2006. For the reasons stated below, we dismiss plaintiffs' appeal.
Defendant First Bank National Association Trust held the
mortgage on plaintiffs' home, and defendant Fairbanks Capital
Corporation serviced plaintiffs' loan. Plaintiffs defaulted ontheir mortgage, and the property was placed in foreclosure.
Plaintiffs commenced a breach of contract action on 17 March 2004
and later amended their complaint to assert numerous claims arising
out of their contention that they were not in default of the
subject note and deed of trust. Plaintiffs claimed that defendants
had not properly credited their account and had not properly
provided them with notice of the foreclosure hearing. Plaintiffs'
specific claims included fraud, breach of contract, unfair and
deceptive trade practices, and actions under the Federal Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act.
On 4 April 2005, the trial court granted defendants' motion to
dismiss all of plaintiffs' claims, save the breach of contract
action, on the ground that plaintiffs did not state a claim upon
which relief could be granted. On 15 July 2005, the trial court
issued an order granting defendant's motion for summary judgment
against plaintiff Lee Allred. The trial court issued an order
granting defendants' motion for summary judgment against plaintiff
Vanessa Allred on 6 September 2005. With both motions, the trial
court determined that plaintiffs did not submit discovery responses
in a timely fashion, and as a result, the court deemed defendants'
requests for admissions admitted. After determining that there was
no genuine issue of material fact remaining, the trial court
granted summary judgment against both plaintiffs.
Plaintiffs filed a new motion to set aside the order of
foreclosure sale on 21 November 2005. A judgment and order
granting defendants' motion for Rule 11 sanctions and denyingplaintiffs' new motion was entered on 17 January 2006. Plaintiffs
filed and served notice of appeal on 10 February 2006.
Plaintiffs' first and fourth assignments of error arise
directly from the trial court's order of 6 September 2005 granting
defendants' motion for summary judgment against Vanessa Allred. As
there was no timely appeal taken from that court order, these
assignments of error are not properly before this court. See N.C.
R. App. P. 3 (2006).
In their second and third assignments of error, plaintiffs
appeal the 17 January 2006 Order Granting Defendants' Motion for
Sanctions and Denying Plaintiffs' Motion to Set Aside Order of
Foreclosure Sale. In their Motion to Set Aside Order of
Foreclosure Sale, plaintiffs contended that they did not receive
notice of the foreclosure hearing and as a result were not present
at the hearing. This issue already had been litigated, however, as
plaintiffs raised this issue in their complaint. Plaintiffs did
not file either a Rule 59 motion for a new trial or a Rule 60
motion for relief from the orders granting summary judgment in
favor of defendants. See N.C. Gen. Stat. . 1A-1, Rules 59, 60
(2005). The trial court, therefore, correctly denied plaintiffs'
motion to set aside the sale. As plaintiffs attempt to use the
instant appeal to revisit previously litigated issues without
having filed a Rule 59 or Rule 60 motion, their second and third
assignments of error are not properly before this Court. Plaintiffs expressly abandon their remaining assignment of
error, and therefore, as no assignments are properly before this
Court, we dismiss the instant appeal.
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