EX PARTE MOORE

No. 3352.

346 S.C. 274 (2001)

550 S.E.2d 877

Ex parte: Louie E. MOORE, formerly doing business as Fairfield Real Estate Company, Inc., Appellant, and Britt Rowe, Purchaser, and Community Federal Savings & Loan Association, Respondents. In re: Jerry W. Branham, Plaintiff, Fairfield Real Estate Company, Inc., Theophilus L. Davis, Peggy K. Branham, Betty Portee, Abraham Khalil, The Bank of Ridgeway, and Community Federal Savings & Loan Association, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided June 4, 2001.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard R. Jordan, Jr., of Berry, Quackenbush & Stuart, of Columbia, for appellant.

Robert E. Stepp and Laura W. Robinson, both of Sowell, Gray, Stepp & Laffitte, of Columbia; and R. Westmoreland Clarkson, of Winnsboro, for respondent Community Federal Savings & Loan Association.

Walter B. Todd, Jr., and J. Derrick Jackson, both of Todd, Holloway & Ward, of Columbia, for respondent Britt Rowe.


ANDERSON, Judge:

This appeal involves a special referee's conduct at a mortgage foreclosure sale. Louie E. Moore ("Moore") was the highest bidder at the foreclosure sale of certain real estate owned by Fairfield Real Estate Company, Inc. ("Fairfield"), at which time Moore was the president and sole shareholder of Fairfield. The referee then announced Moore was required to tender his earnest money to the court within fifteen minutes of the closing of the first sale...

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