Mabee v. Onslow County Sheriff's Dept.

CALABRIA, Judge.

Ronald and Beverly Mabee ("appellants") appeal the 12 July 2004 order granting a motion to dismiss with prejudice as to Ed Brown, Kirk Newkirk, and the Onslow County Sheriff's Department ("appellees"). The trial court granted appellees' motion citing insufficiency of service of process and lack of personal jurisdiction. We agree.

On 30 May 2000 and again on 27 June 2000, appellee Kirk Newkirk, Deputy Sheriff of Onslow County, North Carolina, and several other Onslow County deputies, investigated the private residence of appellants at 202 Crooked Creek Road, Jacksonville, Onslow…