Cobb v. Rocky Mount Board of Education

*682WYNN, Judge.

The issue on appeal in this case is whether the trial court erred in dismissing the petitioner’s appeal for failure to give timely notice of appeal.

The petitioner initially appealed to the Superior Court of Edgecombe County following a denial by the Rocky Mount Board of Education of his request to be reinstated as a school employee. On 2 April 1990, after conducting a hearing on the matter, Judge Richard B. Allsbrook announced in open court that he was denying the relief sought by the petitioner on the ground that the petitioner had been employed at-will by the respondent.…