It’s hard to believe that 5000 activist citizens, most with no more than sound bites from the media and a snippet of a deed, managed to do a better title search than the real estate attorneys consulted by successful developer Stewart Coleman and Buncombe County. However, that is what a judge seems to have found.
This strange scenario, which riled the masses about a magnolia tree that previously went largely unnoticed, is now being used, oddly again, to oust Democrats from office. I could be mean and suppose the dead wood needs to be replaced with fresh fruit.