CAROLINA FOREST ASS'N, INC. v. White

Due to defendants’ numerous egregious violations of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure, I would grant plaintiff’s motion to dismiss this appeal. I therefore respectfully dissent.

The majority explains the convoluted procedural history of this case, defendants’ failure to appear at the trial of this matter and thus to preserve any objections for review, and the many violations of the Rules of Appellate Procedure in the record and in defendants’ brief. The deficiencies in the record on appeal are even acknowledged by defendants’ statement in the record that

[a]ppellants have not been…