Walter Mortgage Company v. Green

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

Walter Mortgage
Company, Respondent,

v.

Natasha L.
Green and Shilon L. Green, Appellants.

Appeal From Chester County

William O. Spencer, Jr., Special Referee

Unpublished Opinion No.   2011-UP-071

Submitted January 4, 2011 – Filed February
23, 2011

AFFIRMED

Natasha Green and Shilon Green, pro se, of McBee, for Appellants.

J. Kershaw Spong, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:  In this
foreclosure action, Natasha and Shilon Green appeal a special referee's
grant of summary judgment to Walter Mortgage Company.  We affirm[1] pursuant to Rule 220(b)(1), SCACR, and the following authorities: S.C. Dep't
of Transp. v. First Carolina Corp. of S.C., 372 S.C. 295, 301, 641 S.E.2d
903, 907 (2007) ("'[A]n 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.'" (quoting Wilder
Corp. v. Wilke, 330 S.C. 71, 76, 497 S.E.2d 731, 733 (1998))); Helms
Realty, Inc. v. Gibson-Wall Co., 363 S.C. 334, 339, 611 S.E.2d 485, 487-88
(2005) ("Appellant[s] ha[ve]
the burden of providing a sufficient record."); Cowburn v. Leventis,
366 S.C. 20, 41, 619 S.E.2d 437, 448 (Ct. App. 2005) ("When a trial court
makes a general ruling on an issue, but does not address the specific argument
raised by a party, that party must make a Rule 59(e) motion asking the trial court to rule on the issue in
order to preserve it for appeal.").

AFFIRMED.

HUFF and LOCKEMY, JJ., and GOOLSBY, A.J., concur.

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