Atlantic Coast Builders & Contractors, LLC v. Lewis

I concur in the result reached by Justice Hearn for the majority on the issue of the security deposit, and dissent from her majority on the issue of improvement costs. I take issue with the disposal of this case on issue preservation grounds. For reasons set forth below, I do not believe the “two-issue” rule precludes this Court from deciding whether the master-in-equity’s award of improvement costs was valid. Additionally, I join Justice Hearn in disagreeing with Justice Pleicones’s position that although Atlantic requested the return of the security deposit in its complaint and Lewis denied…