THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Hazel Jeisel Rivera, Respondent, v. Warren Jared Newton, Newton's Farm, J&J Logging, Inc., and Edgar Rivera, Petitioners.

Appellate Case No. 2013-000674

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Georgetown County Benjamin H. Culbertson, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27542 Heard April 7, 2015 – Filed July 1, 2015

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Brandon A. Smith, of King, Love & Smith, LLC, of Greenwood, and John Dwight Hudson, of Hudson Law Offices, of Myrtle Beach, for Petitioners.

Lawrence Sidney Connor, IV, of Kelaher Connell & Connor, PC, of Surfside Beach, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion in Rivera v. Newton, 401 S.C. 402, 737 S.E.2d 193 (Ct. App. 2012). We now dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted and further direct the court of appeals to depublish its opinion and assign the matter an unpublished opinion number. The above opinion shall no longer have any precedential effect.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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