THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.  IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Gregory L. Ayers, M.D., Thomas L. Brown, M.D., Bill R. Chandler, Everette P. Fuller, M.D., and Reidville Investment Properties, LLC., Respondents,

v.

W. E. Freeman, Petitioner.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Spartanburg County
Roger L. Couch , Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2009-MO-044
Heard June 24, 2009 � Filed August 10, 2009��

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

O. W. Bannister, of Bannister & Wyatt, of Greenville, for Petitioner.

Mason A. Goldsmith, and M. Kyle Thompson, both of Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason, of Greenville, for Respondents.

PER CURIAM:� We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals� opinion.  After careful consideration of the record and briefs, the writ of certiorari is

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED. 

TOAL, C.J., WALLER, PLEICONES, BEATTY, JJ., and Acting Justice James E. Moore, concur.