Natalie Zitek v. D.R. Horton, Inc.(2)

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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

Natalie Zitek, individually, and on behalf of all others
similarly situated, Plaintiff,

v.

D.R. Horton, Inc., Jane Doe #1-10; and, John Doe #1-50,
Defendants,

AND

D.R. Horton, Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff,

v.

AJ Landscaping & Grading, LLC a/k/a AJ Landscaping
& Grading, LLC; AllPro Textures, LLC; Alpha Omega
Construction Group, Inc.; American Concrete and
Precast, Inc. a/k/a ACP Concrete, Inc.; A&J Framing,
Inc.; Alpha E.M.C.; A-Z, Inc.; Atlanta Floor Designs
Center; A Grade Above Others, LLC; Brand-Vaughan
Lumber Co, Inc.; BKF Builders, Inc.; Builders
Designhouse, LLC; BMC East LLC d/b/a Coleman
Floor, LLC; Builders Firstsource Southeast Group, LLC
a/k/a Builders Firstsource, Inc.; Bravo Carpenters, Inc.;
Caryl Mechanics II, Inc. a/k/a Caryl Mechanicals, Inc.;
Cannaday Siding & Gutter, Inc.; Cortes Painting, LLC;
CBU Enterprises, Inc.; CPI Security Systems, Inc.; DOM
Group, LLC: Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.; Five Star
Construction, Inc.; Five Star Foundations, LLC;
Galloway-Bell, Inc. a/k/a Galloway-Bell, Inc. II; Get
Floored, LLC; GBS Building Supply; US LBM, LLC
f/k/a GBS Building Supply, Inc.; General Shale Brick
Inc.; Greener Pastures, Inc. a/k/a Green Pastures of
Aiken, LLC; IBS Asset, LLC d/b/a Blue Ridge Building
Products; Installed Building Products, LLC a/k/a
Installed Building Products II, LLC; JLS Masonry, Inc.;
Kings Landscaping, LLC; Landshapers, LLC; Lade-
Danlar, Inc.; Lansing Building Products, Inc.; Long
Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.; L&M Electric, Inc;
Manale Landscaping, LLC; MJ Cowboys, LLC; M&L
General Construction, LLC a/k/a M&L General
Construction, Inc.; M&L Reyna Construction, LLC;
M&M Foundations, LLC; Nazareth Builders, LLC; NB
Contractors, LLC; Poinsett Development, LLC: Poinsett
Homes, LLC; P&T Construction, Inc. a/k/a P&T
Construction, Inc.; P&L Enterprises, LLC; Probuild
Company, LLC a/k/a Probuild Holdings, Inc.; Rite Rug
Company, Inc. a/k/a Rite Rug Co.; Rodney Howard
Grading, Inc. a/k/a Rodney Howard Grading Co.;
Sandlapper Concrete, LLC; Sodfather, Inc., Landscape
Contractors; Stock Building Supply, LLC; Topbuild
Home Services, Inc.,a/k/a Gale Contractors Service;
Tucker Materials, Inc. a/k/a Gypsum; Silver Line
Building Products Corp.; Dupree Plumbing Co., Inc.;
UTM Enterprises, Inc; Willow Tree Landscaping, Inc.;
and Silver Line Building Products Corporation, Third-
Party Defendants,

Of which Galloway-Bell, Inc. a/k/a Galloway-Bell, Inc.
II is the Respondent and D.R. Horton, Inc. is the
Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2023-001681

Appeal From Anderson County
R. Scott Sprouse, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2026-UP-173
Heard February 3, 2026 – Filed April 8, 2026
AFFIRMED

Carl F. Muller, of Carl F. Muller, Attorney at Law, P.A.,
of Greenville; Jason Michael Imhoff, of Imhoff Law
Firm, of Greenville; and John T. Crawford, Jr., and
Kimila Lynn Wooten, both of Kenison, Dudley &
Crawford, LLC, of Greenville, all for Appellant.

Jeffrey A. Ross and Philip Paul Cristaldi, III, both of
Ross & Cristaldi, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, for
Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We affirm the circuit court's grant of summary judgment to
Respondent Galloway-Bell, Inc., for the same reasons set forth in the related case of
Natalie Zitek v. D.R. Horton, Inc. (1), Op. No. 2026-UP-172 (S.C. Ct. App. filed
April 8, 2026).

AFFIRMED.

GEATHERS, HEWITT, and CURTIS, JJ., concur.