| 114th Year, 25th Issue | Thursday, January 31, 2003 | Sparta, North Carolina |
Two N.C. Department of Revenue agents who last fall lost a malicious prosecution lawsuit lost another round last week, as a judge denied their motion for a stay of the ruling against them.
Judge Judson D. DeRamus Jr. heard the motion during a special session of Alleghany County Civil Superior Court held Jan. 22 for that purpose. DeRamus was also the trial judge in the case, in which Christmas tree farmers Robert Kent Andrews and Jones Andrews sued Robert W. Crump, manager of the controlled substance tax section of the N.C. Department of Revenue, and R.A. Hughes, deputy secretary of that section.
The trial lasted a week and a half last October. The jury awarded Robert Andrews and Jones Andrews $6.4 million. DeRamus afterward granted the defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
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