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

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,” and hold that summary judgment entered in favor of defendants was properly reversed.

G.S. 160A-514(c) and (d) govern the sale to…