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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Inc., Petitioner,

v.

Kathleen J. Gresham, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2015-001836

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Greenville County R. Lawton McIntosh, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2016-MO-032 Submitted November 15, 2016 – Filed December 7, 2016

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Larry C. Brandt, of Larry C. Brandt, P.A., of Walhalla; Steven W. Hamm and Jo Anne Wessinger Hill, both of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A., of Columbia; all for Petitioner.

Kathleen Jennings Gresham, of Landrum, Pro Se Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Inc.'s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in Blue Ridge Elec. Coop. v. Gresham, Op. No. 2015-UP-031 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Jan. 14, 2015). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

PLEICONES, C.J., BEATTY, HEARN and FEW, JJ., concur. KITTREDGE, J., not participating.