# Great Southern Media, Inc. v. McDowell County

> Supreme Court of North Carolina · December 1, 1981 · 304 N.C. 427

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9567999

## Case

- **Full name:** GREAT SOUTHERN MEDIA, INC., and B. E. FOWLER, Plaintiffs v. McDOWELL COUNTY, a Body Politic and Corporate; PAUL RICHARDSON, Chairman, McDowell County Board of Commissioners; GUY L. HENSLEY, Vice Chairman, McDowell County Board of Commissioners; GEORGE G. ELLIS; JANE GREENLEE; And NED L. McGIMSEY, Members, McDowell County Board of Commissioners; RONI HALL, McDowell County Tax Collector; And JACK H. HARMON, County Manager, McDowell County; All Individually and in Their Official Capacities; And JAYVEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Partnership, Defendants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of North Carolina
- **Decided:** December 1, 1981
- **Citations:** 304 N.C. 427; 284 S.E.2d 457; 24 A.L.R. 4th 803; 1981 N.C. LEXIS 1356
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Meyer
- **Judges:** Exum, Meyer, Carlton, Branch, Huskins
- **Cited by:** 23 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Justice MEYER
concurring in result.
I concur in the result reached by the majority that the Old Fort Dispatch satisfies the statutory criteria for publishing notices of tax lien sales. I believe, however, that the majority opinion fails to adequately emphasize that the newspaper should be one whose circulation (ie., distribution) reaches the general body of the taxpayers in the county as was, in my view, intended by the legislature.
Chief Justice BRANCH joins in this concurring opinion.

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