Court Opinion

ID: 9808616
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:43:52.128002+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:08.708065
License: Public Domain

LOGUE, J.
(concurring).
I concur in the holding to reverse because the trial court set the amount to be escrowed without conducting an eviden-tiary hearing. As the majority properly determined, an evidentiary hearing was required here because the facts are in dispute. I do not join the remainder of the opinion, however, because it addresses issues that were not decided by the trial court. Those issues are best resolved in the first instance by the trial court in the context of a full factual record developed at the evidentiary hearing which we are ordering. This approach respects the prerogative of the seasoned trial judge, honors our role as an error-correcting court, and avoids the unintended consequences that might result from the doctrine of the law of the case.