Meacham v. Montgomery County Board of Education

JOHNSON, Judge.

The sole question presented for review is whether the trial court erred in granting a directed verdict against the plaintiff. For the reasons set forth below, we find that the directed verdict was erroneously allowed.

In Meacham v. Board of Education, 47 N.C. App. 271, 267 S.E. 2d 349 (1980) (Meacham I), this Court found disputed issues of material fact as to whether defendant should be estopped from denying plaintiff her status as a “career teacher.”

The following facts were found to raise a permissible inference that the elements of estoppel were present, and sufficiently so,…