Christopher v. Cobblestone Homeowners Ass'n of Clayton, Inc

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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA No. COA15-1280 Filed: 6 September 2016 Johnston County, No. 14 CVD 3880 DENNIS DRAUGHON and MEGAN DRAUGHON, Plaintiffs, v. COBBLESTONE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OF CLAYTON, INC., a North Carolina non-profit corporation, Defendant. ____________________________________ No. COA15-1302 Filed: 6 September 2016 Johnston County, No. 14 CVD 3881 ROBERT SAIN and JENNIFER SAIN, Plaintiffs, v. COBBLESTONE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OF CLAYTON, INC., a North Carolina non-profit corporation, Defendant. ____________________________________ No. COA15-1303 Filed: 6 September 2016 Johnston County, No. 14 CVD 3721 VINCENT FRANKS, JR., Plaintiff, v. DRAUGHON V. COBBLESTONE HOA OF CLAYTON, INC., ET AL Opinion of the Court COBBLESTONE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OF CLAYTON, INC., a North Carolina non-profit corporation, Defendant. ____________________________________ No. COA15-1282 Filed: 6 September 2016 Johnston County, No. 14 CVD 3426 FRANK CHRISTOPHER, Plaintiff, v. COBBLESTONE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OF CLAYTON, INC., a North Carolina non-profit corporation, Defendant. Appeal by Defendant from orders entered 13 May and 4 June 2015 and judgment entered 26 May 2015 by Judge O. Henry Willis, Jr. in District Court, Johnston County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 23 May 2016. Spence & Spence, P.A., by Robert A. Spence, Jr., for Plaintiff-Appellee Frank Christopher. No briefs filed for other Plaintiffs-Appellees. Jordan Price Wall Gray Jones & Carlton, by J. Matthew Waters and Hope Derby Carmichael, for Defendant-Appellant. McGEE, Chief Judge. -2- DRAUGHON V. COBBLESTONE HOA OF CLAYTON, INC., ET AL Opinion of the Court These cases are companion cases to Sanchez v. Cobblestone, COA15-1281, filed contemporaneously with these opinions. Sanchez includes the facts and analysis relevant to resolution of the cases consolidated in this opinion: COA15-1280, COA151282, COA15-1302, and COA15-1303. For the reasons stated in the majority opinion in Sanchez, we affirm. AFFIRMED. Judge HUNTER, JR. concurs. Judge DILLON dissents with separate opinion. -3- No. COA15-1280 – DRAUGHON v. COBBLESTONE; No. COA15-1302 – SAIN v. COBBLESTONE; No. COA15-1303 – FRANKS, JR. v. COBBLESTONE; No. COA15-1282 – CHRISTOPHER v. COBBLESTONE. DILLON, Judge, dissenting. These are companion cases to Sanchez v. Cobblestone, COA15-1281. For the reasons fully stated in my dissenting opinion in Sanchez, I respectfully dissent.

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