Coastland Corp. v. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

LEWIS, Judge.

This case is the companion to State v. Coastland Corp., 134 N.C. App. 269, - S.E.2d - (1999), and they are filed concurrently. Pursuant to a Supreme Court decision and a later sale of one party’s interest, petitioner owned a one-fifth undivided interest and the State owned a four-fifths undivided interest in approximately 1000 tidewater acres containing dikes, impoundments, marshes, low islands, and a few outbuildings. See Taylor v. Johnston, 289 N.C. 690, 224 S.E.2d 567 (1976). On 24 June 1996, Coastland Corporation, the petitioner in this case and defendant in the companion…