DICKERSON v. COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

No. 23992.

440 S.E.2d 359 (1994)

Grady DICKERSON, d/b/a The Villager, Plaintiff, v. COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY AFFILIATED LIMITED and Atlantic Soft Drink Company, Defendants. Gerald L. DANIELS, d/b/a D & J Grocery, Plaintiff, v. PALMETTO BOTTLING COMPANY, et al., Defendants. Alvin Wayne CAMPBELL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PALMETTO BOTTLING COMPANY, et al., Defendants. Henry STOKES, d/b/a Stokes Grocery, Plaintiff, v. PALMETTO BOTTLING COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided January 17, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Church of Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, P.A., Columbia, for defendant Atlantic Soft Drink Co., Inc.

Gary M. Cohen of Blumenfeld & Cohen, Washington, DC, and Elizabeth Van Doren Gray of Glenn, Irvin, Murphy, Gray & Stepp, Columbia, for respondent Ronald K. Runkle.

William C. Buckhold and Leonard Egan of Fort & Schlefer, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs Alvin Wayne Campbell, Grady D. Dickerson, and Gerald L. Daniels.

Ann Yahner of Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, for plaintiff Henry Stokes.

Colden R. Battey, Jr. of Harvey & Battey, Beaufort, Leo H. Hill and Stephen H. Brown of Hill, Wyatt & Bannister, Greenville, Frederick A. Gertz of Gertz & Moore, and Charles F. Cooper, II of Cooper, Coffas & Magna, Columbia, and Michael D. Glenn of Glenn, Haigler & Maddox, Anderson, for plaintiffs.

T. Travis Medlock, Donald J. Zelenka, and William K. Moore, Columbia, for State of S.C., amicus curiae.


TOAL, Justice:

Pursuant to Rule 228, SCACR, we agreed to answer the question certified to this Court by order of Charles K. McCotter, Jr., United States Magistrate for the Western District of North Carolina:

Whether S.C.Code Ann. § 39-3-40 (1985) precludes prosecution by the State of South Carolina of a witness compelled to testify in a civil action brought in the United States District Court under S.C.Code Ann. § 39-3-10 and § 39-3-30.

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