Poret v. State Personnel Commission

WELLS, Judge.

Neither side raises the issue, but we must first determine whether this case is presently appealable. In re Watson, 70 N.C. App. 120, 318 S.E. 2d 544 (1984), disc. rev. denied, 313 N.C. 330, 327 S.E. 2d 900 (1985). We conclude that the appeal is interlocutory and therefore must be dismissed.

The order of the superior court remanded the case for further hearing before the SPC. We have recently and expressly held that such an order by the superior court is interlocutory. Blackwelder v. Dept. of Human Resources, 60 N.C. App. 331, 299 S.E. 2d 777 (1983). Avoidance of a hearing does…