Gilliam v. Greenwood Professional Investigations, Inc.

• Decision Date: 30 January 2013
• Docket Number: 2013-UP-044
• Parties: Reginald M. Gilliam, Appellant, v. Greenwood Professional Investigations, Inc. and Mr. Ronnie McAllister, Respondents. Appellate Case No. 2011-194292
• Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals

Reginald M. Gilliam, Appellant, v. Greenwood Professional Investigations, Inc. and Mr. Ronnie McAllister, Respondents.

Appellate Case No. 2011-194292

No. 2013-UP-044

Court of Appeals of South Carolina

January 30, 2013

UNPUBLISHED OPINION

Submitted December 3, 2012

Appeal From Greenwood County Frank R. Addy, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Reginald M. Gilliam, pro se.

Billy J. Garrett, Jr., of The Garrett Law Firm, PC, and Robert Jamison Tinsley, Jr., of Tinsley & Tinsley, P.C, both of Greenwood, for Respondents.

PER CURIAM:

Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: Rule 12(a), SCRCP ("A defendant shall serve his answer within 30 days after the service of the complaint upon him . . . ."); Citizens & S. Nat'l Bank of S.C. v. First Palmetto State Bank & Trust Co., 279 S.C. 252, 254, 305 S.E.2d 80, 80-81 (1983) ("[O]ne of the most important elements of a Summons is the time it allots for the defendant to appear.").

AFFIRMED. ^[1]

SHORT, KONDUROS, and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

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Notes:

[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

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