Davis v. S.C. Dept. of Public Safety

Full title: Jackie Franklin Davis, Respondent, v. South Carolina Department of Public…

Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina

Date published: Apr 19, 1999

515 S.E.2d 761 (S.C. 1999)

515 S.E.2d 761

Opinion

No. 24938

Heard March 16, 1999

Decided April 19, 1999 Rehearing Denied May 27, 1999

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Laurens County Thomas L. Hughston, Jr., Circuit Court Judge. REVERSED

Senior Assistant General Counsel Patrick M. Teague and General Counsel Frank L. Valenta, Jr., both of South Carolina Department of Public Safety, of Columbia, for petitioner.

William H. Nicholson, III of Nicholson Anderson, of Greenwood, for respondent.

PER CURIAM:

We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals opinion inDavis v. South Carolina Department of Public Safety, 328 S.C. 578, 493 S.E.2d 871 (Ct.App. 1997). Pursuant to Thompson v. South Carolina Department of Public Safety, Op. No. 24937 (S.C. Supreme Court filed April 19, 1999), we now reverse.