THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Amy Davidson, Petitioner,

v.

City of Beaufort, Branch Banking & Trust of South Carolina, Collins Engineering, Inc., Brantley Construction Company, Inc., and Tidal Wave 23, LLC, Defendants, of whom Collins Engineering Inc., Brantley Construction Company, Inc., and Tidal Wave 23, LLC, are Respondents.

and

Phillip Davidson, Petitioner,

v.

City of Beaufort, Branch Banking & Trust of South Carolina, Collins Engineering Inc., Brantley Construction Company, Inc., and Tidal Wave 23, LLC, Defendants, of whom Collins Engineering, Inc., Brantley Construction Company, Inc., and Tidal Wave 23, LLC, are Respondents.

Appellate Case No. 2011-199428

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS Appeal from Beaufort County Marvin H. Dukes, III, Special Circuit Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2014-MO-010 Heard February 19, 2014 – Filed April 16, 2014

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

H. Fred Kuhn, Jr. and James H. Moss, both of Moss Kuhn & Fleming, PA, of Beaufort, for Petitioners.

H. Michael Bowers and Laura Johnson Evans, both of Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP, M. Dawes Cooke, Jr. and Phillip S. Ferderigos, both of Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms, LLC, R. Patrick Flynn and Robert J. Cardillo, both of Robertson Hollingsworth & Flynn, all of Charleston, for Respondents.

PER CURIAM: After careful review of the Appendixes, Briefs, and Record, the writ of certiorari is

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

PLEICONES, Acting Chief Justice, BEATTY, KITTREDGE, HEARN, JJ., and Acting Justice James E. Moore, concur.