DAISY OUTDOOR ADVERTISING CO. v. ABBOTT

No. 24463.

473 S.E.2d 47 (1996)

DAISY OUTDOOR ADVERTISING COMPANY, INC., Respondent/Petitioner, v. Dean ABBOTT, d/b/a Abbott Company Outdoor Advertising, Petitioner/Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided July 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edwin McDonnell, Spartanburg, for Petitioner/Respondent.

William G. Rhoden, of Winter & Rhoden, Gaffney, for Respondent/Petitioner.


TOAL, Justice:

This case stems from an ongoing dispute between two outdoor advertisers, Daisy Outdoor Advertising Company ("Daisy") and Dean Abbott d/b/a Abbott Company Outdoor Advertising ("Abbott"). We granted certiorari to clarify our precedents concerning the public interest requirement for a private cause of action under South Carolina's Unfair Trade Practices Act ("UTPA"), S.C.Code Ann. § 39-5-20 (1985). The Court of Appeals found that although Abbott presented...

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