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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Debi Baker Brookshire, Petitioner, v. Community First Bank and Benjamin Hiott, Defendants, Of Which Community First Bank is the Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2022-000756

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Oconee County J. Cordell Maddox, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2024-MO-009 Heard March 27, 2024 – Filed April 24, 2024

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Warren Blair Giese and Kelly Lloyd Giese, both of The Giese Law Firm, LLC, of Columbia; and Jonathan D.

Waller, of Angell Molony, LLC, of Aiken, all for Petitioner.

Robert Yates Knowlton, Sr., and Elizabeth Halligan Black, both of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Brookshire v. Community First Bank, 2022-UP-163 (S.C. Ct. App. filed April 6, 2022). After careful consideration of the Appendix and briefs, the writ of certiorari is DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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