PORSH BUILDERS, INC. v. CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM

No. 96.

276 S.E.2d 443 (1981)

PORSH BUILDERS, INC. v. CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 7, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by Roddey M. Ligon, Jr., Winston-Salem, City Atty., Ronald G. Seeber, and Asst. City Atty., Ralph D. Karpinos, Winston-Salem, for defendants-appellants.

Frye, Booth & Porter by Leslie G. Frye and John P. Van Zandt, III, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellee.


COPELAND, Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether defendants were required under the language of G.S. 160A-514 to accept plaintiff's bid as the "highest responsible bid," if defendants decided to accept either bid submitted. For the reasons stated below, we find the Court of Appeals' majority opinion correct in its interpretation of the statute as allowing defendants to either reject all bids or accept plaintiff's "highest responsible bid,"...

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