Deutsche Bank v. Dooly

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 Court of Appeals

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for
Argent Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2004-W11, Respondent,

v.

Geary Thomas Dooly, Eleanor S. Dooly and United
States of America, Defendants,

Of whom Geary Thomas Dooly is the Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2017-001238

Appeal From Spartanburg County
Gordon G. Cooper, Master-in-Equity

Unpublished Opinion No. 2019-UP-157
Submitted March 1, 2019 – Filed May 1, 2019

AFFIRMED

Geary Thomas Dooly, of Spartanburg, pro se.

Genevieve Speese Johnson and William Price Stork, both
of Brock & Scott, PLLC, of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: Judy v. Martin, 381 S.C. 455, 458, 674 S.E.2d 151, 153 (2009) ("Under
the law-of-the-case doctrine, a party is precluded from relitigating, after an appeal,
matters that were either not raised on appeal, but should have been, or raised on
appeal, but expressly rejected by the appellate court."); Wilder Corp. v. Wilke, 330
S.C. 71, 76, 497 S.E.2d 731, 733 (1998) ("It is axiomatic that an issue cannot be
raised for the first time on appeal, but must have been raised to and ruled upon by
the trial judge to be preserved for appellate review."); Potter v. Spartanburg Sch.
Dist. 7, 395 S.C. 17, 24, 716 S.E.2d 123, 127 (Ct. App. 2011) ("An issue is deemed
abandoned if the argument in the brief is not supported by authority or is only
conclusory.").

AFFIRMED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and SHORT and MCDONALD, JJ., concur.

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