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C. WAYNE CRAWFORD and LYNN P. CRAWFORD
v.
COLON S. MINTZ, JR., WILLIAM R. OWENS, and BFD PROPERTIES, INC.
d/b/a RE/MAX PROPERTY ASSOCIATES
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the
decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, ___ N.C.
App. ___, 653 S.E.2d 222 (2007), reversing an order and judgment
entered on 11 May 2006 by Judge James R. Fullwood in District
Court, Wake County. On 11 June 2008, the Supreme Court allowed
plaintiffs' petition for discretionary review of additional
issues. Heard in the Supreme Court 19 November 2008.
Everett, Gaskins, Hancock & Stevens, LLP, by E.D.
Gaskins, Jr. and Michael J. Tadych, for plaintiff-
appellants.
McDaniel & Anderson, L.L.P., by John M. Kirby, for
defendant-appellees.
PER CURIAM.
For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion, the
decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed. This case is
remanded to the Court of Appeals for consideration of the
remaining assignments of error. Plaintiffs' petition for
discretionary review as to additional issues was improvidently
allowed.
REVERSED AND REMANDED; DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
IMPROVIDENTLY ALLOWED.
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