Bank of North Carolina v. Whitfield

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

Bank of North Carolina, Respondent,

v.

Anthony Whitfield and Cindy Whitfield, Defendants,

Of whom Anthony Whitfield is the Appellant and Cindy Whitfield is a Respondent.

Anthony Whitfield, Appellant,

v.

David Swanson, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2016-002193

Appeal From Dorchester County Diane Schafer Goodstein, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-242 Submitted May 1, 2019 – Filed July 3, 2019

AFFIRMED

Daniel Scott Slotchiver and Andrew Joseph McCumber, both of Slotchiver & Slotchiver, LLP, and Brent Souther

Halversen, of Halversen & Associates, LLC, all of Mount Pleasant; for Appellant.

Brian C. Duffy and Blake Abernethy McKie, both of Duffy & Young, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent Bank of North Carolina; Paul B. Ferrara, III, of Ferrara Law Firm, PLLC, of North Charleston, for Respondent Cindy Whitfield; Steven Raymond Kropski, Michael B. McCall, and David W. Overstreet, all of Earhart Overstreet, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, for Respondent David Swanson.

PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: Atl. Coast Builders & Contractors, LLC v. Lewis, 398 S.C. 323, 328, 730 S.E.2d 282, 284 (2012) ("Under the two issue rule, where a decision is based on more than one ground, the appellate court will affirm unless the appellant appeals all grounds because the unappealed ground will become law of the case." (quoting Jones v. Lott, 387 S.C. 339, 346, 692 S.E.2d 900, 903 (2010))); Mibbs, Inc. v. S.C. Dep't of Revenue, 337 S.C. 601, 605, 524 S.E.2d 626, 628 (1999) ("Failure to appeal an alternative ground of the judgment will result in affirmance."); Folkens v. Hunt, 290 S.C. 194, 205, 348 S.E.2d 839, 846 (Ct. App. 1986) ("An alternative ruling of a lower court that is not excepted to constitutes a basis for affirming the lower court and is not reviewable on appeal.").

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, THOMAS, and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

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