Court candidates make their cases
The two candidates for North Carolina Supreme Court point to cases they say best define their judicial philosophy.
Posted — Updated"Folks knew what they were buying when they bought there," Newby said. The fees, he said, were needed to light streetlights, pave roads and otherwise provide for common areas of the development. Documents in this case, he said, were out of date because they were first recorded in the 1920s. But those technical problems, he said, shouldn't stand in the way of common sense.
"When the law and common sense align, then I think that's a proper outcome ... instead of getting caught up on a technicality.
"To reach that decision we had to interpret some rather elderly documents," Ervin said. He described the decision in the case as "common sense."
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