Porsh Builders, Inc. v. City of Winston-Salem

276 S.E.2d 443 (1981)

PORSH BUILDERS, INC.

v.

CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM et al.

No. 96.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 7, 1981.

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…