SHELTON v. OSCAR MAYER FOODS CORP.

No. 24580.

325 S.C. 248 (1997)

481 S.E.2d 706

Julian Harris SHELTON, Petitioner, v. OSCAR MAYER FOODS CORPORATION, d/b/a Louis Rich, a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillip Morris Companies, Inc., Barton Protective Services, Inc., and William Brown, Defendants. of which Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation, d/b/a Louis Rich, a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillip Morris companies, Inc., is Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided February 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Richard Kelly, Columbia; and Samuel M. Price, Jr., Newberry, for petitioner.

Thomas A. Bright, of Haynesworth, Baldwin, Johnson and Greaves, P.A., Greenville, for respondent.

Harold W. Funderburk, Jr., Columbia, for amicus curiae SC Employment Security Commission.


BURNETT, Justice:

Shelton claims the trial court and the Court of Appeals erred in holding the factual issues determined during a contested hearing conducted by the South Carolina Employment Security Commission (ESC) did not preclude relitigation of those issues in a subsequent wrongful discharge suit. We affirm.

FACTS

Shelton was employed at the Louis Rich processing plant in Newberry, South Carolina...

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