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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court H. Hughes Andrews, Petitioner, v. Quentin S. Broom, Jr., Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2022-000285

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Spartanburg County J. Mark Hayes II, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2024-MO-001 Heard December 12, 2023 – Filed January 17, 2024

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Rodney F. Pillsbury, of Pillsbury Law Firm, LLC, of Greenville, for Petitioner.

Matthew Terry Richardson, of Wyche, PA; Whitney Boykin Harrison, of McGowan, Hood & Felder, both of Columbia; and James Edward Cox Jr., of Wyche, PA, of Greenville, all for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Andrews v. Broom, Op. No. 2022-UP-022 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb.

9, 2022). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, FEW, JAMES and HILL, JJ., concur.