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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

William D. Curtis, Respondent,

v.

Sandra Morris Blake, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Brandon T. Blake, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2011-191906

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Orangeburg County J. Derham Cole, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2012-MO-043 Heard October 16, 2012 – Filed October 24, 2012

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Thomas J. Keaveny, II and Amy B. Rothschild, both of Keaveny Law Firm, of Charleston, for Petitioner.

Robert Norris Hill, of Newberry, Mark Brandon Tinsley, of Gooding & Gooding, of Allendale, and C. Bradley Hutto, of Williams & Williams, of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals affirming the denial of Petitioner's motion for a new trial. We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.