National Advertising Co. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation

LEWIS, Judge.

Defendant appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for plaintiffs.

The following undisputed facts were presented at the summary judgment hearing:

Prior to August 1994, plaintiffs (hereinafter collectively “Whiteco”) owned an outdoor advertising sign which was located adjacent to Interstate 95 on land owned by the J.W. Crew estate (“Crew estate”). In 1972, the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) issued an advertising permit for the sign. In July, August and September, 1993, in anticipation of its pending purchase of the Crew estate land on which the sign was located, the…